British astronaut Tim Peake has met Theresa May after being invited to a reception at 10 Downing Street.
The
44-year-old was introduced to the new Prime Minister on Monday July 18,2016 just
over four weeks after returning from his six-month mission to the
International Space Station(ISS)
Before entering Number 10, Major Peake and his wife Rebecca posed for pictures outside the famous black door
Tim Peake was making his first public appearance in the UK since landing
on the steppes of Kazakhstan in a Soyuz space capsule on June 18,2016
He
said: 'It still seems fairly surreal that less than four weeks ago I
was on board the International Space Station travelling at 25 times the
speed of sound and looking down on planet Earth.'
Describing
what it was like to readjust to Earth gravity after 186 days in orbit,
Major Peake admitted that the first three days were 'fairly
uncomfortable' because of vertigo.
He
added: 'Once that disappears it's really a case of the body learning to
balance again. That's what takes the longest, because your body has
shut down the vestibular system for the six months in space. That
actually takes a long time, to learn the finesse of balance.'
Major Peake said he still had a 'bit of work to do in the gym' but had experienced no physical problems.
However, he added that it would take six months to a year for the 'microstructure' in his bones to recover.
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