Posted
11/22/2009 01:03:00 PM
by Douglas
Orbiting the earth at 17,000 miles per hour when the only thing standing between your grisly death is a piece of government
plastic may be once in a lifetime opportunity, but so is the birth of your first child. So how do you pick? Why not flip a
coin?Astronaut Randolph Bresnik is a new dad again, after launching into space and taking a spacewalk, all for the first time.
He announced the birth of his daughter, Abigail, on Sunday morning on NASA's airwaves.
His wife, Rebecca, gave birth to their second child back home in Houston on Saturday at 11:04 p.m. CST. They have a 3-year-old son, adopted from Ukraine.
At least she has a good attitude about it:
"We don't choose the timing," she said in an interview that was broadcast by NASA following the birth announcement. "He's trained one year for this mission but really he's been here five, almost six years. I'm just really excited for him and excited for us."
What else is she gonna say? He can't stay in orbit forever.