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IDENTIFIABLE VIN NUMBER. AND IT TURNS OUT THAT THE THINGS THAT THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT WERE NOT, WERE NOT REAL. SO I DIDN’T HAVE A STROKE. I DIDN’T HAVE A HEART ATTACK. ALL THESE THINGS THAT THEY THAT THEY THOUGHT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED ABSOLUTELY DIDN’T HAPPEN. WELL, AFTER THE FIRST EVER MEDICAL EVACUATION FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, PITTSBURGH NATIVE AND ASTRONAUT MIKE FINK SAYS THE HEALTH SCARE TURNED OUT TO BE A FALSE ALARM. IN HIS FIRST INTERVIEW SINCE THAT INCIDENT, FINK SAID TESTING BACK ON EARTH CONFIRMED HIS GOOD HEALTH, AND HE TELLS US HE IS RECOVERING WELL. HE WAS ONE OF FOUR ASTRONAUTS ON THE SPACE X CREW 11 MISSION. THEY SPENT FIVE AND A HALF MONTHS IN SPACE CARRYING OUT ALL SORTS OF EXPERIMENTS AND ALSO SOME MAINTENANCE ON THE I S S. THEY CAME HOME JUST SHY OF THEIR FULL MISSION AND LANDED SAFELY BACK ON EARTH IN JANUARY. IT’S REALLY GOOD TO SEE HIM HEALTHY AND BACK ON EARTH. YOU INTERVIEWED HIM TODAY. DID HE SAY ANYTIME HE’S GOING TO COME BACK TO PITTSBURGH ANYTIME SOON? YEAH, WELL, I DID THAT ZOOM INTERVIEW WITH MIKE THIS MORNING. HE’S DOWN IN HOUSTON, BUT HE DID ACTUALLY SAY, INTERESTINGLY, THAT HE MIGHT BE HAVING A REASON TO COME BACK HERE TO PITTSBURGH. AND WE’RE GOING TO BE FINDING OUT ANY DAY NOW ABOUT THIS ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WILL BE COMING FROM THE NFL DRAFT. WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT JUST AS AS A WORK IN PROGRESS. BUT OF COURSE, I’M A BIG STEELERS FAN, SO ANY CHANCE TO TO DO ANY WORK WITH THE NFL IS ALWAYS APPRECIATED. BUT WE’LL SEE WHAT THE NEEDS OF THE AGENCY ARE WITH NFL NEEDS. AND THE DRAFT IS A REALLY BIG DEAL. AND EITHER WAY, MIKE, HE TOLD ME HE IS COMING BACK TO PITTSBURGH SOON. EVEN
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After the first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station, astronaut Mike Fincke says the health scare turned out to be a false alarm.Fincke told Hearst sister station WTAE that testing back on Earth confirmed his good health and that he is recovering well.”It turns out that the things that they were worried about were not real. I didn’t have a stroke. I didn’t have a heart attack. All these things that they thought might have happened absolutely didn’t happen,” Fincke said during a Zoom interview from Houston, Texas.Fincke was one of four astronauts on the SpaceX Crew-11 mission, spending five and a half months in space conducting various experiments and maintenance on the ISS. The crew returned to Earth in January, just shy of completing their full mission.During the interview Monday, Fincke hinted at a possible role in the NFL Draft that will be held April 23-25 in Pittsburgh. He said there could be an announcement in the coming days.”We can talk about it just as a work in progress, but of course, I’m a big Steelers fan, so any chance to do any work with the NFL is always appreciated,” Fincke said. “We’ll see what the needs of the agency are, what the NFL needs. The draft is a really big deal.”Fincke also talked about some of the work accomplished on the ISS that he is most proud of, including a lot of work with private companies researching stem cells.”Where a company is trying to make a product, and that they have purchased time aboard the International Space Station. It’s a national laboratory, so we were glad to help to get some fundamental research done,” he said.The Artemis mission is set to launch in April, and Fincke said he feels optimistic about going back to space. That mission is in preparation for another moon landing. Fincke said he would love to take a walk on the moon and isn’t ruling it out.
After the first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station, astronaut Mike Fincke says the health scare turned out to be a false alarm.
Fincke told Hearst sister station WTAE that testing back on Earth confirmed his good health and that he is recovering well.
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“It turns out that the things that they were worried about were not real. I didn’t have a stroke. I didn’t have a heart attack. All these things that they thought might have happened absolutely didn’t happen,” Fincke said during a Zoom interview from Houston, Texas.
Fincke was one of four astronauts on the SpaceX Crew-11 mission, spending five and a half months in space conducting various experiments and maintenance on the ISS. The crew returned to Earth in January, just shy of completing their full mission.
During the interview Monday, Fincke hinted at a possible role in the NFL Draft that will be held April 23-25 in Pittsburgh. He said there could be an announcement in the coming days.
“We can talk about it just as a work in progress, but of course, I’m a big Steelers fan, so any chance to do any work with the NFL is always appreciated,” Fincke said. “We’ll see what the needs of the agency are, what the NFL needs. The draft is a really big deal.”
Fincke also talked about some of the work accomplished on the ISS that he is most proud of, including a lot of work with private companies researching stem cells.
“Where a company is trying to make a product, and that they have purchased time aboard the International Space Station. It’s a national laboratory, so we were glad to help to get some fundamental research done,” he said.
The Artemis mission is set to launch in April, and Fincke said he feels optimistic about going back to space. That mission is in preparation for another moon landing. Fincke said he would love to take a walk on the moon and isn’t ruling it out.
