NASA astronaut, ISS and the Space Shuttle
We retrieved 11 posts and 631 comments from u/RonGaran, dated 2012 to 2026, most often in r/IAmA, r/nasa and r/printSF.
On “IAmA NASA Astronaut that recently returned to Earth after a 1/2 year in space. I'm brand new to reddit (like hours ago) AMA”
Huh, I was expecting something more like "I was looking forward to seeing my family again" but yeah, that would logically be going through my mind to. Was it a bumpy ride back?
it was like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel (that's on fire) followed by a high speed crash
On “IAmA NASA Astronaut that recently returned to Earth after a 1/2 year in space. I'm brand new to reddit (like hours ago) AMA”
did you do a spacewalk at all? if you did what did it sound like? I think on earth we very rarely experience true complete silence, did you experience it? what was it like, was it different from the "silence" we experience on earth? I'm super interested in this.
I have done 4 spacewalks (in total I have been "outside over 27 hours) It's actually not that quiet since your spacesuit has fans running (you're basically in your own self-contained spaceship)
On “I am NASA astronaut Ron Garan, I want to do an AMA but instead I want to ask you: What do you think NASA should do next? What's should be the next destination for human space exploration?”
This is off topic, but could you describe what it was like going out on your first spacewalk?
Part of my brain said, "This is an amazingly beautiful experience" - another part said, "Yeah, it's beautiful but it's not real" since on my 1st spacewalk I had no experience base to compare it to, part of me couldn't accept it was real
On “IAmA NASA Astronaut that recently returned to Earth after a 1/2 year in space. I'm brand new to reddit (like hours ago) AMA”
How do you sleep in space?
While sleeping I free floated (interesting that I usually woke up up-side-down - in relation to my stuff)