Tim Peake: ‘I would go back to space in a heartbeat’

British astronaut Tim Peake has given a vivid account of his “really exciting ride” back to Earth and said he would return to space “in a heartbeat”.
Tim Peake: ‘I would go back to space in a heartbeat’

Speaking at his first press conference since leaving the International Space Station and landing in Kazakhstan on Saturday, he also said he was “feeling fantastic”.

Major Peake described a series of adrenaline- pumping events including his tiny Soyuz capsule “tumbling” in space, watching a pyrotechnic display of sparks and flames during the fiery descent through the Earth’s atmosphere, and the sensation of “falling back to Earth” as the building G-force pushed him back in his seat.

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