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Peggy Annette Whitson 09.02.1960
« dnia: Wrzesień 19, 2017, 01:47 »
Peggy Annette Whitson jest obecnie rekordzistką wśród amerykańskich astronautów pod względem nalotu (665:22:22:59) jak też pod względem długości lotu kosmicznego w przypadku kobiet (289:05:01:31)
Wśród kobiet zajmuje z 10. EVA naczelną pozycję.  Odbyła trzy długoterminowe loty orbitalne na ISS z użyciem pięciu załogowych statków kosmicznych. W wieku 56 lat stała się też najstarszą kobietą, która wzięła udział w kosmicznej wyprawie.

419. człowiek w kosmosie.
Jej 10 spacerów trwało  łącznie 60h 19m 00s.
Stan na 25.01.2024: Odbyła 4. loty kosmiczne, które trwały łącznie 675d 03h 50m 12s.


Biografia na stronie NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/peggy-a-whitson/biography

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/whitson_peggy.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/w/whitson.html
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/w/whitson-p.php

https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00419.htm
https://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/whitson-peggy-annette.html
https://www.astronaut.ru/index/in_pers/13_115.htm
https://www.april12.eu/usaastron/whitson419ru.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Whitson
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https://spaceflightnow.com/tag/peggy-whitson/
https://www.biography.com/people/peggy-whitson-052617
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/peggy-whitson-7502.php
https://starsunfolded.com/peggy-whitson/
https://upclosed.com/people/peggy-whitson/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/17/age-barrier-astronaut-peggy-whitson/24941597/
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EDIT 09.02.23
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Joyeux anniversaire (63) à @AstroPeggy 🎂🎂🎂
(pour le moment, 3 vols longue durée sur l'ISS : Expedition 5 / Expedition 16 / Expedition 50-51-52 soit 665 jours 22 heures 22 minutes dans l'espace dont 60h21 dans le vide spatial en 10 EVA)
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Odp: Peggy Annette Whitson 09.02.1960
« Odpowiedź #1 dnia: Wrzesień 19, 2017, 01:48 »
Whitson and Fischer Discuss Record-Setting Multi-Month ISS Increment
By Ben Evans, September 11th, 2017


A week after returning from space, Jack Fischer has accrued 136 days in orbit from his first mission. Peggy Whitson, meanwhile, now stands as the world’s eighth most experienced spacefarer, with 665 days across her three missions. Photo Credit: Michael Galindo/AmericaSpace

(...) “What impressed me most was the quality and caliber of science that we’re doing now,” Whitson told the JSC audience. Her career, both before and since becoming an astronaut, has seen her work on space medicine issues for the shuttle-Mir program in the 1990s and she has flown aboard the ISS at three critical junctures of its history. Her first flight on Expedition 5 in June-December 2002 saw her honored as the first ISS “science officer”, whilst on Expedition 16 in October 2007 through April 2008 she became the first female astronaut to command a space station. With Expeditions 50, 51 and 52, she has seen the ISS come full-circle, from an in-work construction effort in 2002, to the arrival of new international modules and an enhanced science capability in 2007-2008 and to the station in its final form in 2016-2017. Fischer has long nicknamed her the “Space Ninja”. (...)

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Odp: Peggy Annette Whitson 09.02.1960
« Odpowiedź #2 dnia: Październik 22, 2017, 16:15 »
10 lat temu 19 października 2007 Peggy Whitson stała się pierwszą kobietą, która przejęła dowodzenie ISS.

Handover Complete? 10 Years Since Whitson Became First Female Space Station Commander
By Ben Evans October 19th, 2017

The event was almost an anticlimax. On 19 October 2007, ten years ago today, Peggy Whitson became the first woman in history to take command of a space station. Surrounded by five astronauts and cosmonauts from three sovereign nations—including Malaysia’s first astronaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor—she was already a veteran, having spent six months aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in June-December 2002. Subsequently, she served as deputy chief of NASA’s Astronaut Office and trained as backup commander for Expedition 14, before rotating into the prime slot for Expedition 16. Asked to do a voice check on the Space-to-Ground-2 communications link, Whitson responded with a brief “five, four, three, two, one, zero…”, to which her Russian crewmate Oleg Kotov quipped “Handover’s complete!”

It was not, of course. Firstly, because it was veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, rather than Kotov himself, who would be relinquishing command of the ISS. And secondly, because the first female to helm a space station was surely deserving of more exalted words. “I am very proud today, because today is the day when the ISS Program will have its first woman commanding,” Yurchikhin began. Announcing Whitson by her full name and doctorate, he congratulated her and officially handed station operations over to her. With a hearty handshake, Whitson thanked him for his contributions and closed with: “I relieve you, Fyodor Nikolayevich, of command.” It was not the first time the pair had been together in space, nor would it be the last. They first met aboard the ISS in October 2002, whilst Whitson was a member of Expedition 5 and Yurchikhin was a crewman aboard shuttle Atlantis on STS-112. And more recently, earlier this summer, Whitson and Yurchikhin flew together again during Expeditions 51/52. (...)

http://www.americaspace.com/2017/10/19/handover-complete-10-years-since-whitson-became-first-space-station-commander/

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Odp: Peggy Annette Whitson 09.02.1960
« Odpowiedź #3 dnia: Październik 22, 2017, 17:51 »
Jak uważacie, czy Peggy jeszcze ma szanse polecieć na orbitę?

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Odp: Peggy Annette Whitson 09.02.1960
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Odp: Peggy Annette Whitson 09.02.1960
« Odpowiedź #4 dnia: Październik 22, 2017, 22:08 »
Oczywiście-  doświadczenie i szansa kolejnych rekordów dają tej pani szansę

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Odp: Peggy Annette Whitson 09.02.1960
« Odpowiedź #5 dnia: Październik 23, 2017, 07:35 »
Praktycznie nie ma szans na następny lot.

Chyba, jedynym amerykańskim astronautą, który poleciał w kosmos aż po 29 latach obecności w korpusie NASA jest Story Musgrave.
Z tego punktu widzenia Peggy miałaby szansę.

Ale biorąc pod uwagę , że Peggy aż tak wiele już osiągnęła i jednak mimo wszystko w NASA rzadko dochodzi do lotów astronautów w okolicy 60. to nie oczekiwałbym powtórnego jej pobytu w kosmosie.

Wśród Amerykanów nie ma  astronauty, który cztery razy odbyłby długi lot kosmiczny.
Też bardzo obciążające dla organizmu ludzkiego są długie loty.
Dopiero na początku jesteśmy w badaniu ponad standardowo długich lotów i lepiej minimalizować ryzyko nieprzewidzianych sytuacji.
Teraz Peggy powinna odbywać długookresowe medyczne badania kontrolne.
A w przypadku tej zasłużonej astronautki powinno to oznaczać zwieńczenie jej kosmicznej aktywności.

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« Odpowiedź #6 dnia: Czerwiec 15, 2018, 23:26 »
Dzisiaj dla Peggy Whitson był ostatnim dniem w NASA.

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It’s been the greatest honor to live out my lifelong dream of being a @NASA Astronaut. Thank you to the #NASAVillage and all who have supported me along the way. As I reminisce on my many treasured memories, it’s safe to say my journey at NASA has been out of this world!
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The incredible career of NASA's Peggy Whitson, who applied to become an astronaut 10 times before she broke the American record for space travel
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Astronaut Peggy Whitson looks out at the International Space Station (ISS) through a window on the Space Shuttle Endeavour during her first trip to space. NASA

http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-astronaut-peggy-whitson-career-2018-6?IR=T
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« Odpowiedź #7 dnia: Czerwiec 15, 2018, 23:28 »
A NASA astronaut who spent 665 days circling the planet reveals the misery of going to the bathroom in space
Hilary Brueck  May. 26, 2018


International Space Station commander Peggy Whitson of the U.S. is pictured before boarding her spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Thomson Reuters

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson has logged a whopping 665 days in space.

That's an American record, and it's more time in space than just about anyone else on Earth can claim (aside from seven Russian cosmonauts.)

She's hit her "radiation limit" she says, and won't be headed back to the International Space Station again.

While it's a sad realization for Whitson, who loves a good gravity-free float, there's one thing she won't miss about living on the International Space Station: the bathroom.



NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson with both feet on the ground in New York, May 22, 2018. Hilary Brueck/Business Insider

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson sometimes has tears in her eyes when she says she won't be going in to space again.

The former International Space Station boss has logged a whopping 665 floating days in space, more than any other American.

It's clear from her beaming smile and boisterous, frequent laughs that she loved nearly every aspect of the out-of-this-world job, from installing battery parts on the station's solar panels to sampling mysterious space microbes.

"To be a part of exploration in that very direct way," she told Business Insider, is "incredibly satisfying and gratifying."

But there's one aspect of life in space that Whitson says she won't miss at all: the toilet.

"The space station is not really a hotel yet," she said Tuesday, her feet firmly planted on the ground inside a five-star (and flush-toilet equipped) hotel in New York.

"I would call it a camping trip."

The toilet on the ISS is not quite as bad as the Maximum Absorbency Garment diapers that astronauts sometimes had to use on missions like the Apollo moon trips. But the $19,000 Russian-made toilet (seen here) isn't exactly first class, either.


This toilet was delivered to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-126 mission in 2008. The Russian-built system cost around $19,000 and can turn crew member urine into potable water. NASA

"Urinating's relatively easy," Whitson says.

For that, astronauts use a funnel equipped with a fan that suctions their pee away, so it doesn't float off. (See the yellow cone on the top right side of this toilet photo? That's where the urine goes.) Then it takes about eight days for the liquid to become drinking water again for the astronauts.

But Whitson says that if you have to do more than just urinate, things aren't so simple.

"Number two... is more challenging because you're trying to hit a pretty small target," she said.

ISS residents go to the bathroom into a little plate-sized hole on top of that silver can, using the fan to vacuum-suck the excrement away. After the astronauts are done, the poop gets sealed up in a plastic bag, to await the next space trash day.

"After it starts getting full," Whitson said with a grimace, "you have to put a rubber glove on and pack it down."

Every once in a while, the whole process goes awry, or the toilet malfunctions, and the astronauts have to catch a floating turd.

But eventually, all that waste gets blasted off on a cargo ship that's jam-packed with ISS trash, and sent on a burning suicide mission towards Earth's atmosphere.

"We send 'em on a trajectory that will purposely burn up," Whitson said.

As for the urine, about 80 to 85% of that gets recycled into drinking water, and the rest becomes briney waste.

"We want a closed loop system, which means we have to recycle all our water," Whitson said. Perhaps that'll be the next home improvement project onboard the ISS.

You can hear more of Whitson's story, from her roots on an Iowa farm to her journey into the cosmos, on the finale episode of National Geographic's "One Strange Rock," which airs Monday May 28, at 10 p.m. Eastern on the National Geographic channel.

If you're still flummoxed about how the toilet really works on the ISS, check out this explainer video from Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti:




http://www.businessinsider.com/how-you-go-to-bathroom-space-nasa-astronaut-2018-5?IR=T
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« Odpowiedź #8 dnia: Czerwiec 16, 2018, 08:13 »
Record-breaking astronaut Peggy Whitson retires from NASA

(...) Whitson's departure from NASA came one day before the 55th anniversary of the launch of the first woman in space, Soviet-era cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, in June 1963. Whitson followed 39 years later becoming the 38th woman to enter orbit. Twenty-three more woman have flown since Whitson made her first flight for total of 61. (...)

http://www.collectspace.com//news/news-061518a-peggy-whitson-nasa-retires.html

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Odp: Peggy Annette Whitson 09.02.1960
« Odpowiedź #9 dnia: Czerwiec 19, 2018, 09:04 »
Peggy Whitson opuszcza NASA
BY MICHAŁ MOROZ ON 19 CZERWCA 2018

Najbardziej doświadczona astronautka NASA opuszcza szeregi tej agencji.

Peggy Annette Whitson jest związana z amerykańską agencją kosmiczną od 1986 roku. W Centrum Kosmicznym im. Johnsona zaczynała od prac związanych z lotami wahadłowców do Stacji Mir. W 1996 roku została wybrana do korpusu astronautów NASA.

Łącznie brała udział w trzech lotach kosmicznych, a na orbicie spędziła 665 dni. Obecnie znajduje się na ósmym miejscu pod względem długości przebywania w kosmosie. Rekordzistą jest Rosjanin Giennadij Padałka, z 878 naliczonymi dniami.

Whitson brała udział w trzech misjach na pokładzie Międzynarodowej Stacji Kosmicznej, w 2002, 2007-2008 oraz 2016-2017 roku. Podczas drugiego i trzeciego lotu dowodziła załogą na ISS. Była pierwszą kobietą, która objęła dowództwo stacji. Wykonała również 10 spacerów kosmicznych. Jako pierwszy cywil, oraz pierwsza kobieta dowodziła również korpusem astronautów w latach 2009-2012.

Redukcja przydziału rosyjskich kosmonautów do ISS w 2017 roku, pozwoliła na przedłużenie ostatniej misji Peggy Whitson o trzy miesiące. Była to bardzo pozytywna wiadomość dla studiów długoterminowego wpływu mikrograwitacji na organizm człowieka. Zazwyczaj na ISS loty załogi trwają około 5-6 miesięcy. Dopiero w 2015 i 2016 roku zrealizowano prawie roczną misję orbitalną Amerykanina (Scott Kelly) i Rosjanina (Michaił Kornienko).



Wywiad z Peggy Whitson / Credits – NASA

Peggy Whitson opuściła szeregi NASA w dniu 15 czerwca 2018. Jak na razie nie wiadomo, jakie będą kolejne zajęcia Peggy Whitson, jednak można przypuszczać, że wciąż będzie blisko związana z amerykańskim sektorem kosmicznym. Jest także możliwe, że Peggy Whitson otrzyma stanowisko na jednej z amerykańskich uczelni.

Spojrzenie w przyszłość

Zanim odbędą się dłuższe, planowane na przyszłą dekadę, misje załogowe poza bezpośrednie otoczenie Ziemi, należałoby zebrać dużo informacji medycznych w ramach kolejnych długoterminowych misji załogowych na ISS. Te powinny się odbyć zanim zakończy się program Stacji.

Do końca funkcjonowania ISS roku łącznie NASA byłaby w stanie przeprowadzić jeszcze kilka rocznych wypraw załogowych na ISS. Przy okazji długich lotów, jak u Peggy Whitson, zebrane zostały dodatkowe dane medyczne, które przydadzą się dla planowania przyszłych lotów.

Wiele z kwestii medycznych wciąż jest bardzo słabo poznanych i stanowią one duże ryzyko dla długoterminowych misji załogowych. Tematami o ważnym znaczeniu są m.in. wpływ promieniowania na organizm człowieka, wpływ mikrograwitacji na wzrok, sytuacje wymagające interwencji medycznej oraz utrata tkanki kostnej. W kilku kwestiach, dotyczących m.in. zranień wskutek zmian obciążeń (także podczas spacerów kosmicznych) czy wiedzy o układzie odpornościowym doszło w ostatnich latach poczyniono znaczne postępy  – wciąż jednak są wymagane dalsze prace. Kwestie z zakresu medycyny kosmicznej są coraz lepiej poznawane , także dzięki pracom na ISS. Przykładem jest detekcja i zwalczanie choroby dekompresyjnej – dziś stosuje się odpowiednią procedurę ćwiczeń i oddychania przed spacerami kosmicznymi. NASA przewiduje, że w ciągu kilku najbliższych lat dalsze prace jeszcze bardziej obniżą ryzyko wystąpienia tej choroby.

Oczywiście, na ISS nie będzie można zbadać wszystkich efektów biomedycznych, na jakie będą narażeni przyszli astronauci. Przykładowo, kwestia wpływu księżycowego czy marsjańskiego pyłu na zdrowie człowieka wymaga innej ścieżki badań niż na Stacji.

ISS jest świetnym laboratorium dla wielu technologii oraz badań nad ludzkim organizmem w warunkach mikrograwitacji. Wykonanie kilku rocznych misji na Stacji powinno przynieść wystarczającą ilość wiedzy do rozpoczęcia eksploracyjnych lotów załogowych – niezależnie, czy ich celem będzie Księżyc czy Mars.

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https://kosmonauta.net/2018/06/peggy-whitson-przechodzi-na-emeryture/
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« Odpowiedź #10 dnia: Luty 09, 2020, 21:20 »
Okrągły jubileusz 60-lecia obchodzi była astronautka NASA Peggy Whitson.

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« Odpowiedź #11 dnia: Listopad 30, 2020, 03:00 »
Astronautka jest na razie jedyną kobietą, która trzy razy spędziła Dzień Dziękczynienia na orbicie.
Jest ono w USA obchodzone w czwarty czwartek listopada.


Expedition 50 Crew to Celebrate Thanksgiving Aboard Space Station
By Ben Evans, on November 24th, 2016

(...) The 50th skipper of the International Space Station (ISS) and the first woman to spend as many as three Thanksgivings away from the Home Planet—together with their four Russian and French crewmates—will tuck into smoked turkey and cherried blueberry cobbler today (Thursday, 24 November), after wrapping up a full workday aboard the orbital outpost. Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and his crew of Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Andrei Borisenko, and Oleg Novitsky, Frenchman Thomas Pesquet, and former NASA Chief Astronaut Peggy Whitson will continue an unbroken period of 16 years in which an American citizen has been in orbit on Thanksgiving. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2016/11/24/expedition-50-crew-to-celebrate-thanksgiving-aboard-space-station/

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« Odpowiedź #12 dnia: Czerwiec 01, 2023, 15:51 »
Astronautka po zakończeniu swego najkrótszego lotu kosmicznego
https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1664012405192392705

https://twitter.com/esaspaceflight/status/1659507514461831168
https://twitter.com/AstroPeggy/status/1664033382416646144
https://twitter.com/ISS_CASIS/status/1663912012278013953
https://twitter.com/AstroPeggy/status/1661859491921494016
https://twitter.com/AstroPeggy/status/1661716337230594050
https://twitter.com/AstroPeggy/status/1662063051472863233
https://twitter.com/AstroPeggy/status/1662383217540841473

https://twitter.com/Axiom_Space/status/1659545692585574401
https://twitter.com/Axiom_Space/status/1659562805299748864

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To był zabawny wywiad z Erin Burnett@cnni!
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https://twitter.com/AstroPeggy/status/1668366146167361538

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Veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson says more private space flights are in the horizon
June 9, 20234:33 PM ET By Alejandra Marquez Janse
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with astronaut Peggy Whitson about her most recent trip to space, commanding a private company mission.

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:

If you've ever traveled somewhere that left you so enthralled, you wanted to go back over and over, then you get how Peggy Whitson feels about space. Whitson is an astronaut, the first woman to command the International Space Station. She broke the American record for cumulative days in space - 665. Well, that was back in 2017. She told NPR that same year she was probably done but that she would miss it.

PEGGY WHITSON: Anyone that's ever gone to space is always wanting to go back. You get addicted to it.

KELLY: So addicted that last month, at age 63, she un-retired and signed on as commander of the Ax-2 mission for a private company, Axiom Space, where she works as the director of human spaceflight. On board with her - three paying passengers, including Rayyanah Barnawi and another Saudi astronaut. Peggy Whitson, welcome back to Earth.

WHITSON: Well, it's - I would say it's great to be back, but it was great to be up there, too. So it was a great experience all around.

KELLY: What made you say yes to this mission? - because you told us back in 2017 you thought you were done with going to space.

WHITSON: I thought I was done because I didn't think there would be opportunities. Luckily for me, Axiom Space had these opportunities become available, and I, of course, signed up with a jumping up and down kind of a response.

KELLY: Oh, really? Like, what was - they didn't have to pitch very hard to persuade you that you should sign on.

WHITSON: No, absolutely not.

KELLY: What appealed to you about - I mean, you've spent your career at NASA. What appealed to you about a private mission?

WHITSON: Space really is changing - you know, the character of space and how it is - exploration is occurring. You know, if you look at even the NASA missions going to the - returning to the moon, lots of different private space companies are involved in that process. And that includes Axiom Space, for instance, who are building the spacesuits that will be used by the NASA astronauts as they step on the moon again.

KELLY: It's so interesting. I was going to ask you, is the future of space exploration private? If I'm hearing you right, it's - you see it as a partnership, that public and private are going to have to work together going forward.

WHITSON: Oh, absolutely. I think it's a worldwide relationship of different companies and peoples. And that's what makes it such a special time to be a part of the mission because, you know, there are going to be many more opportunities in the future. And trying to expand that horizon as part of my initial steps here is a lot of fun for me to be making history in that kind of way.

KELLY: So talk to me about some of the work you did on this mission. I gather among the research projects that you and your crew worked on was one involving cancer cells. How did that go?

WHITSON: That was great. That was one I was involved with. But they were looking at different types of cancer cells. They like to use zero gravity because the cells grow a little bit more like they do in your body and maybe a little bit faster. And that helps them test things like drugs to prevent them or to reduce the effects of the growth in space. And so it was exciting for me to be a part of one of those studies. And, you know, as a life scientist, I really enjoyed, you know, the stem cell research and all the life sciences-type research that we were doing.

KELLY: I mentioned how deeply experienced you are. What is the weight of being in space and commanding crew members who are rookies, who've never been up there before?

KELLY: Well, I've actually flown before with numerous rookies. And, you know, it's actually, I think, kind of fun because you get to relive the experience of being there through their eyes. You know, it's like watching a young child experiencing something for the first time. And in my case, I get - I got to see on this mission three people experiencing space for the first time. So it was a lot of fun for me to relive my experience as well through them.

KELLY: Do you feel the wonder of it all over again, of looking down...

WHITSON: Absolutely.

KELLY: ...And thinking, oh, my God, that's Earth.

WHITSON: Well, and just, you know, the wonder of, you know, learning how to fly in space, you know, float around and, you know, be effective and just that sheer joy of being able to move so easily and, in my mind, gracefully. I don't feel like I'm particularly graceful here on Earth (laughter).

KELLY: And then I want to ask about recovery now that you're back on Earth. You returned last week. Do you get jet lag? I'm thinking if I fly to Tokyo, it takes me a week to feel human again. What's it like coming home from space?

WHITSON: There was a little bit of, in essence, jet lag. We are on Greenwich Mean Time while we were in space. And so, you know, it's a five-hour difference between here and Central Time. And so, you know, there is a little bit of that jet lag going on, the - you know, those feelings of whether they're neuro-vestibular, you know, being a little bit off balance. Those to me seemed to recover much more quickly after this short flight than they did after my long flights. So I do think your body learns a little bit from it, and I do think duration makes a difference on the impacts.

KELLY: Is it true that your nickname is space ninja?

WHITSON: Yeah. My last space flight when I broke the U.S. record, Jack Fisher, my crewmate on board - he named me the space ninja.

KELLY: Is this a nickname you wear with pride?

WHITSON: Oh, yeah, actually. There could be a lot worse names. I think it's kind of a cool one.

KELLY: I would agree.

WHITSON: So I like it.

KELLY: Yeah.

WHITSON: And he spent the whole mission trying to get the ground team to call me the space ninja. And so - and eventually they did.

(LAUGHTER)

KELLY: I mean, I'm asking in part because I remember when you talked to us before a few years ago, you were wrestling with seeing yourself as a role model. And I wonder, how about now? Does that mantle sit - rest a little easier?

WHITSON: Yeah, it does. And it was actually one of the things I shared with Rayyanah being the first Saudi woman in space. You know, I told her, hey; it's a short mission. You got to start owning this before you fly. And, you know, I tried to help her on what - the fact that she needed to actually embrace the fact that she is a role model and will be a huge role model in her country.

KELLY: Oh, that's interesting. So you're role modeling how to be a role model...

WHITSON: Yeah.

KELLY: ...For the next generation.

WHITSON: Because I struggled with that some, so I wanted to make sure she started off on the right foot.

KELLY: So I got to ask, are you done? Was that the last trip?

WHITSON: Not if I get another chance.


KELLY: I love it. Astronaut Peggy Whitson, thank you so much for being with us today, and welcome home.

WHITSON: All right. Thank you so much.

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https://www.npr.org/2023/06/09/1181408544/veteran-astronaut-peggy-whitson-says-more-private-space-flights-are-in-the-horiz
https://www.space.com/ax-2-astronaut-peggy-whitson-ready-next-flight

https://twitter.com/AstroPeggy/status/1687793099882258432


It's true that the @Space_Station is as big as a football field, but it's not designed like one. The modules can be very narrow and being in close quarters is something that just goes with the territory. You can see how scrunched @AstroPeggy, @Thom_astro and I are working in the cupola - but the views totally make up for it!
https://twitter.com/Astro2fish/status/1684559025910824960
https://twitter.com/Axiom_Space/status/1699318011943890994
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What better way to celebrate Read A Book Day than reading one IN SPACE?!@AstroPeggy reads children's book Luna Muna, by @kelliegerardi, in space during the #Ax2 Mission.


Surreal to know my children’s book Luna Muna is orbiting the Earth on the ISS right now, to be read from space by #Ax2 Commander @AstroPeggy. The book is about a little girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut and I’m oddly emotional that she made it.🥹 (And she beat me lol)
https://twitter.com/kelliegerardi/status/1661149718616084480


Ahead of upcoming #IAC, our executives traveled to Baku to speak @USEmbassyBaku. @AstroPeggy shared her #Ax2 Commander's Report and clearly inspired a new generation of space leaders. #AxiomLeads
https://twitter.com/Axiom_Space/status/1690443352498724864
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Announcing the winner of the 2024 #CollinsTrophy for Lifetime Achievement: Astronaut Peggy Whitson
From medical researcher to ISS Commander to @Axiom_Space astronaut, @AstroPeggy has led a distinguished career of dedication, perseverance, and passion in space science.
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1721920645011742915
https://twitter.com/AstroPeggy/status/1731679290939277537
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It’s always fun to hang out under Space Shuttle Enterprise @intrepidmuseum! It was a huge honor to receive the Unstoppable Women Leadership Award, presented to me by my dear friend @cboldenjr.
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Odp: Peggy Annette Whitson 09.02.1960
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Astronautka wspomina swoje kwietniowe twarde lądowanie.
Kobieta, przed którą kosmiczne wrota zdają się nie zamykać  :)
Chyba wiadomo, dlaczego Axiom-3 tak długo wraca na Ziemię  ;)


At the end of Exp 16, during the Soyuz re-entry, one of the separation bolts did not work properly. The result was a “ballistic” (steeper than normal) return, and we experienced g-forces over 8 (almost twice the landing norm), and ended up hitting the ground far off target near some very surprised farmers. But, I guess the old pilot saying applies here - any landing you can walk away from is a good one. It qualifies in my book as “sporty”!
https://x.com/AstroPeggy/status/1754876698783355189

Peggy Whitson: The Extraordinary Journey of Peggy Whitson, Defying Gravity, Inspiring Generations Paperback – July 5, 2023


https://www.amazon.com/Peggy-Whitson-Extraordinary-Inspiring-Generations/dp/B0C9S7QFD2


I'm honored to be a judge for the second annual international space art and poetry contest. Starting today (through April 5th 2024), students ages 5 - 18 can submit art and poetry showcasing what it would look like if we lived in space. The winners will be announced on the @Space_Station and have their art flown in space. Let your imaginations soar!✨ https://spaceartcontest.com
https://x.com/AstroPeggy/status/1754533338793103372
https://x.com/AstroPeggy/status/1754952427919294552
https://x.com/AstroPeggy/status/1664297491108446208

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https://twitter.com/Axiom_Space/status/1756698802054918459
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in #STEM! Today, we celebrate the contributions of the incredible women in STEM on our staff as they #BuildForBeyond. #TeamAxiom.

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https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1771239477354050046
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Last night, we awarded Peggy Whitson the 2024 Michael Collins Trophy for Lifetime Achievement.
From medical researcher to ISS Commander to Axiom astronaut, @AstroPeggy has led a distinguished career of dedication, perseverance, and passion in space science. #CollinsTrophy #WHM
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Odp: Peggy Annette Whitson 09.02.1960
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