'I Didn't Look Too Good Because I Didn't Feel Too Good': NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Explains Why He...

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Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues came home aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on April 19, touching down in Kazakhstan to bring their seven-month International Space Station (ISS) mission to a successful close. (In Kazakhstan, it was actually April 20 ⁘ Pettit's 70th birthday.)

"I didn't look too good because I didn't feel too good," Pettit told reporters during a press conference from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Monday afternoon (April 28). "I was right in the middle of emptying the contents of my stomach onto the steppes of Kazakhstan."

"They're polite, and they don't have a camera shoved in your face when you're in the middle of doing that," Pettit said today. "They cut away to give you a little bit of privacy when you're not feeling too good. Because, after all, nobody wants to be on camera when you're doing that."

"Some people can roll off a [space] shuttle flight, and they're ready to go out and have pizza and dance," Pettit said. "Someone like me, coming back to Earth has always been a significant challenge. And even with a 16-day shuttle mission, that felt about like being gone for six months on space station. And that's just my physiology."

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