{"id":7876,"date":"2018-12-11T16:07:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T21:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=7876"},"modified":"2018-12-11T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T21:07:22","slug":"astronaut-saint-jacques-in-awe-of-view-of-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=7876","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Saint-Jacques in awe of view of Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canadian astronaut, David Saint-Jacques, was born in Quebec City and grew in St-Lambert on the South Shore.<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n

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    THE CANADIAN PRESS\/HO-NASA Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says his body is adjusting to the microgravity of space. He says during the first few days he felt puffy faced, just like the sensation a child feels from hanging upside down on monkey bars.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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    During his first days in the microgravity of space, David Saint-Jacques was transported back to his childhood, the Canadian astronaut told reporters Monday. It was not the feeling of gazing at the heavens in wonder he was talking about but the sensation of hanging upside down at a playground as blood rushes to your head. \u201cI\u2019m a little bit congested here, like most people are, because the gravity is not there to pull blood down into your legs,\u201d Saint-Jacques explained Monday over a video link between the International Space Station and Canadian Space Agency headquarters. \u201cYour body has to adjust to that, so initially you have kind of a big red puffy face . … Do you remember as a child hanging from the monkey bars in the park, how your head kind of puffs up? That\u2019s kind of how you feel constantly initially, and then it normalizes.\u201d The astronaut, who arrived at the International Space Station Dec. 3, said there have already been plenty of breathtaking moments. The first sunrise from orbit after he and fellow astronauts Anne McClain of NASA and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, blasted off was \u201cquite an emotional moment,\u201d he said. \u201cI looked out the window and this little blue crescent started to get brighter and brighter and I realized, \u2018Wow, this is actually the curve of the earth,\u2019 \u201d he said. In his first news conference from the space station, he said he is trying to learn as much as possible from the occupants who have been there since June and are scheduled to return to Earth Dec. 20. They are Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos. He said he has begun to \u201cdabble\u201d in Earth photography, including photos of his hometown. Saint-Jacques was born in Quebec City and raised in the Montreal suburb of St-Lambert. \u201cIt is just a never-ending sense of awe looking at our blue planet \u2014 this thin blue line in the atmosphere, that colour, that flash of blue \u2014 it\u2019s just unbelievable,\u201d he said, adding that he is moved by the beauty of sunrises and sunsets and the sense of Earth\u2019s size. \u201cIt\u2019s very touching, and it\u2019s very humbling, and it makes you want to go back to Earth and help make it better.\u201d Saint-Jacques said nothing in the intensive training astronauts undergo can prepare them for the feeling of weightlessness. \u201cSo I do the typical rookie mistakes, try not to crash anywhere, and my colleagues are showing us how to fly,\u201d he said. Saint-Jacques was playful during his exchange with reporters, spinning his mike in the air and at one point letting it drop and continuing to talk as it floated in place. When the session ended he said goodbye and disappeared up out of the picture. Aboard the station, the 48-yearold physician will conduct a number of science experiments, with some focusing on the physical effects of the microgravity astronauts experience in orbit and others on how to provide remote medical care. The last Canadian astronaut to visit the space station was Chris Hadfield, who was on a five-month mission that ended in May 2013.<\/p>\n

    It\u2019s very touching, and it\u2019s very humbling, and it makes you want to go back to Earth and help make it better.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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