Whitson has now spent 675 days in space — and she wants more off-Earth time.
It wasn't all epiphanies and reveries for the Ax-2 crewmates, though. They also had to deal with more practical matters, some of which proved a bit challenging for the rookie spaceflyers.
"I know there was one thing you guys were maybe a little afraid of: the toilet," Whitson, who now serves as director of human spaceflight at Axiom, told her three crewmates during Thursday's press conference. The astronauts all laughed, and AlQarni replied that using a space toilet definitely requires"planning ahead." But the rookies apparently did their prep work well.
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