David Saint-Jacques Recovering Nicely After Return From Lengthy Mission in Space

In this photo provided by NASA, Expedition 59 astronaut David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is helped out of the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft just minutes after he, NASA astronaut Anne McClain, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on June 25, 2019. Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP/The Canadian Press

After more than six months in space, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says adapting back to life on Earth is going as well as he could have hoped.

Speaking from the Johnson Space Centre in Houston on Friday, Saint-Jacques told reporters he didn’t feel any pain but had major problems with balance and nausea after touchdown in Kazakhstan late Monday. His condition has steadily improved in the four days since.