(Radio Iowa) – Iowa-born astronaut Peggy Whitson is featured in a national interview with Norah O’Donnell on the C-B-S program “Person to Person.” The Beaconsfield native reflected on her recent space flight, the fourth in her long career. In May, Whitson led a crew to the International Space Station as part of the private Axiom 2 mission. Whitson says the toughest part about the flight was readjusting to Earth’s gravity after the 10-day mission was over.

She retired from NASA in 2018 and joined Axiom, which plans to build a commercial space station beginning as early as 2025. Whitson hopes the company will expand on some of the medical experiments that were conducted during her latest mission, including cancer research. With her latest flight, Whitson increased her U-S record for most time spent in space — to 675 days.