Astronaut on Top of the World as Daughter is Born Back on Earth
Santa Monica High grad misses daughter's birth because of pesky spacewalk
By OLSEN EBRIGHT
Updated 11:30 AM PDT, Mon, Nov 23, 2009
Randolph Bresnik spent Monday celebrating the birth of his daughter by taking his third spacewalk of space shuttle Atlantis' mission.
Bresnik -- a Santa Monica High graduate -- was up in space when his wife Rebecca gave birth to a six-pound, 13-ounce girl back in Houston. Abigail Mae was born on Saturday, just hours after Bresnik's first spacewalk.
The proud papa has been celebrating all weekend, the Associated Press reported:
On Sunday, Bresnik proudly wore a black "it's a girl" T-shirt, passed out pink bubble gum cigars to his 11 spacemates, and showed off a pink onesie emblazoned with his crew's mission patch.
"Other than seeing my wife for the first time, I've never seen anything more beautiful than being outside" on a spacewalk, Bresnik said Sunday. He said pictures of his daughter, beamed up later in the day by Mission Control, were sure to shove the views of Earth into third place.
Bresnik and his crewmates are scheduled to arrive back at Kennedy Space Center on Friday.
First Published: Nov 23, 2009 10:36 AM PDT
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