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In this image from video made available by NASA, astronaut Joe Acaba, right, aboard the International Space Station, takes questions from students at the Puerto Rico Institute of Robotics in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Friday, Jan 12, 2018. One student asked how Puerto Rico looked from space after Hurricane Maria struck in September 2017. Acaba says the first thing he noticed was the lack of electricity, making the island almost impossible to see at night. (NASA via AP)

Puerto Rican astronaut reaches out to island’s schoolkids

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this image from video made available by NASA, astronaut Joe Acaba performs a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. The 250-mile-high complex is currently home to three Americans, two Russians and one Italian. (NASA via AP)

Spacewalking astronaut copes with frayed tether, bad jetpack

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this image from video made available by NASA, astronaut Joe Acaba performs a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Acaba was barely outside an hour when he had to replace one of his safety tethers. Spacewalking astronauts always have more than one of these crucial lifelines in case one breaks. They also wear a jetpack in case all tethers fail and they need to fly back to the space station. (NASA via AP)

The Latest: Spacewalker’s jetpack bad; ordered back inside

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Joe Acaba, left, the first astronaut of Puerto Rican heritage, talks during an interview with The Associated Press alongside Italy's Paolo Nespoli, center, and Mark Vande Hei from the International Space Station on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. Acaba offered words of comfort to Puerto Ricans enduring the wrath of Hurricane Maria. (NASA via AP)

Puerto Rican astronaut gets double dose of hurricanes

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft lands with Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka of Russia, NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba and Russian Flight Engineer Sergie Revin in a remote area near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/NASA, Carla Cioffi)

U.S., Russian astronauts land in Kazakhstan

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press