Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk does a Q&A (and a backflip) from space

All students in St. John's had a chance to get out of the classroom and into outer space this afternoon and have a chat with a Canadian astronaut. Hello, my name is Louie, and I've been wondering, how do you exercise in space? We lift weights here. We have a real neat machine that uses vacuum pressure to create weight resistance. We have a treadmill that you chain yourselves to in order to hold you down. yourself to the treadmill that this seems a little bit dark to me. It's just crazy that Lisa said you had to chain yourself. I mean, it makes sense. You're going to fly off if you don't chain yourself to it, so. I looked up at the sky and I'm like, I need to pick something because I was all over the place where I wanted to be when I was younger. And then I slowly realized that there was a lot more that I liked about space than I initially thought. It's much easier for me to enjoy and like think that maybe this is really something I should do, like speaking to someone who actually had done something They're like that before. Space Agency, this is Mission Control Houston. Please call station for a voice check. It kind of makes me want to be a scientist even more because space is kind of science-y and I like science. I've always wanted to be a scientist. I don't have a question, but just kind of would like to see an example of zero gravity. Maybe, do you got a backflip in you or something like that? Do I have a backflip in me? I can do a backflip, but you can't laugh if I mess it up. All right, there it is. I hope that we're in space. I hope you enjoyed it. All right. Well, I do like the idea of just being in zero-g. The backflip was probably the best part. It's just remarkable to see the way something like space exploration can bring people together, especially with Artemis II. You can see how many people were inspired by it, especially as a woman seeing other women in space. We had Christina Cook just seeing... That representation, seeing how it brings everybody together and that excitement and that joy and that passion is just so inspiring and we got to see a little bit of that in this room today.