Polish Astronaut Uznanski-Wisniewski Returns Home
Polish astronaut Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski received a warm welcome at Warsaw Chopin Airport on Thursday, greeted by around 100 supporters waving flags and banners. The homecoming event was organized by astronomy advocate Karol Wojcicki, CE Report quotes PAP
Later in the day, Uznanski-Wisniewski is set to meet Prime Minister Donald Tusk and speak at a press briefing.
Before returning to Poland, he spent a week recovering at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, where his health was monitored following his return from space.
On July 15, he and three fellow astronauts — Peggy Whitson (USA), Shubhanshu Shukla (India), and Tibor Kapu (Hungary) — splashed down in the Pacific after a 20-day Ax-4 mission, including 18 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
The mission, organized by NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX, involved scientific experiments aboard the ISS. Uznanski-Wisniewski, 41, is now the second Pole in space and the first to visit the ISS.
