Vic Ryckaert is an enterprise reporter for WRTV’s digital team. He also covered public safety, government, and development for the Indianapolis Star for more than two decades.
But somehow, he knew, deep in his heart, that he would one day travel to outer space.
The Michigan native returns to the Hoosier state on April 8, when he joins other former astronauts, scientists and academics as NASA and Purdue host a total eclipse-viewing celebration at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. And as I got older and was studying both in community college and university, I sort of had this goal in my mind, that I was hopefully going to find my path to it, and it worked out. So when people ask me when did I first think about it or dream about it? I really didn't. I just had the thought that that was what I was going to end up doing as a career. So, I was fortunate to have made it that way along the path.Fuestel: It's a pretty challenging process.
So, I had those three space flights over the course of my career, accompanied by nine spacewalks totaling I think over 62 or almost 63 hours of time working out in space in that spacesuit. I've enjoyed every minute of it and am very proud to have had the opportunity, proud of the career and fortunate to have had those opportunities to be there in space, working and living.
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