Christina Koch Adjusting To Life Back On Earth Written 13 February 2020

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Christina Koch Adjusting To Life Back On Earth

NASA astronaut Christina Koch |  NASA

Spaceflight Now reports that Christina Koch, “six days after returning from a record 11-month stay aboard the” ISS, “said Wednesday she’s re-adapting to gravity with no major problems.” Koch told reporters at the Johnson Space Center, “I’m really fortunate, a lot of people…when you’re re-adapting to one G (gravity) on Earth, you might experience some motion sickness and things like that. I’m really fortunate in that I have not experienced that. What I have noticed is that my balance has taken a little while to get used to.” In addition to the “physical sensations of living once again on the surface of a planet,” Koch “said she marveled at the ‘sensory experiences that define Earth and the things that are here.’”
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