Russian cosmonauts don't like returning to Earth

[Allegra]

I can understand that but where can you ever find a restaurant out there? The End of Universe?

Cosmonauts don't like returning to Earth - CNN.com

'STAR CITY, Russia (Reuters) -- Given the choice, Russian cosmonauts would likely never come back to Earth. It is the part of their jobs they like the least.

"The best, the most beautiful part, is after the start when you look at Earth straight away," Cosmonaut Vladimir Dezhurov told Reuters.
"Earth is like a big, blue balloon and this beautiful balloon is flying, all around it is solid blackness."

Dezhurov has lived in Star City -- a formerly top-secret training base for cosmonauts near Moscow -- for 21 years and has done two four-month stints aboard the international space station, 217 miles above Earth.
He can think of no other profession he'd like better, despite the fact that after the launch, and that glimpse of his home planet, "it's all work, work, work up there, night and day".

But his main gripe is not the long hours, or missing his family and friends.
"The hardest thing is coming back to Earth," he said. The problem is not so much the mundanity of earthly existence -- bills to pay, food to buy, chores to complete.

"The muscle fabric degrades very much. It's hard to walk. You have to learn how to walk again, like a small child."

Astronauts train daily aboard the orbiting space station to prevent the atrophy of their legs and feet which are under-used in weightlessness. It takes several weeks under medical supervision to recover from a long stay in space.'

[Connavar]

Damn i didnt know about the muscle fabric degrade.

Must be pain to do that everytime you come back.


Got more respect for these men and women now.

I knew they trained hard and all but to learn how to walk again and again sheesh.

[PTeppic]

I'd heard about it but didn't realise it was so fast acting. I knew it's one of the big concerns about Mars missions etc.

[The Ace]

Well, think about it, the work may be tedious or dangerous, but look at the view, I'd think twice about coming back as well.