— When NASA astronaut Joseph Acaba was out doing a spacewalk during a recent trip to the International Space Station, he held on tight. “It does take a little bit of work while you’re doing a spacewalk to realize, okay, it’s okay. You are not going to fall.”Acaba was making his first public appearance——on the groundsince his Feb. 28 return from the space station. Acaba, who has logged more than 300 days in space on three separate flights, said space travel for private citizens is closer than many think. Acaba completed one spacewalk on the mission, to lubricate an end effector and install new cameras on the station’s arm and truss.

Source: National Post May 03, 2018 05:26 UTC