After more than six months in space, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says adapting back to life on Earth is going as well as he could have hoped. “Gravity has become my friend again.”ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWSaint-Jacques, 49, set a Canadian record for longest single space flight at 204 days. “It was a powerful moment.” Saint-Jacques said reuniting with his wife and hugging his children brought him the greatest pleasure upon his return to Houston. After months in a confined space, Saint-Jacques said he’s looking forward to eventually taking a nighttime stroll among the masses in Montreal and sitting around a camp fire at the cottage. Saint-Jacques, an engineer, astrophysicist and family doctor, is expected to return for a visit to the Canadian Space Agency next month.

Source: thestar June 28, 2019 21:00 UTC