This is very hard. My husband and I were the other way round - he always wanted kids and I don’t. I spent a year trying to convince myself I could want a child before realising that parenthood is not something you can do for someone else. I would say talk about it properly, and then take a few weeks or months if need…

Dr Peggy Whitson is awesome, but not the first female astronaut. That honour belongs to Russia’s Valentina Tereshkova.