Posted on 01/09/2025 1:10:17 PM PST by dennisw
The American astronauts who have been stranded in space for seven months have hinted at the toll their unexpected mission is taking.
Butch Wilmore, 62, and Sunita Williams, 59, were heard telling NASA bigwigs 'eventually, we want to go home' during a video call on Wednesday.
The pair first landed at the International Space Station (ISS) on June 5 and they have been stuck there ever since.
Their visit was only supposed to be eight days long. But due to safety concerns, NASA decided to send the Boeing Starliner spacecraft they arrived on back to Earth without anyone inside.
In August 2024, it was decided that the left-behind astronauts would return home on a SpaceX aircraft in 2025.
On Wednesday, Wilmore and Williams joined fellow astronauts Nick Hague, 49, and Don Pettit, 69, at the ISS to share more details about their lives in space.
The astronauts participated in a video call with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy.
Williams shared how she and Wilmore have been feeling about their shocking circumstances and adapting to their extended space stay.
'Yeah, eventually we want to go home, because we left our families a little while ago, but we have a lot to do while we’re up here,' she revealed.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that
“’Yeah, eventually we want to go home, because we left our families a little while ago, but we have a lot to do while we’re up here,’ she revealed.”
Cracks? Nah. That sounds awfully disciplined. My hats off to these space pawns trapped up there.
They are probably doing loads of crossword puzzles/ Then they trade memories of great meals and recipes. The can discuss hot n sour soup and egg drop soup for hours.
Technical prowess waxes and wanes with generations.
They did that. “We” didn’t.
I Hope their on board computer isnt named HAL.
I think I can make a guarantee that within a week or so of Trump assuming office there will be a SpaceX ship taking these stranded astronauts back home. Boeing be damned.
In space, no one can hear you scream.
This is a lesson for all of us in “contemplating the significance of the passage of time”.
Naah, NASA’s just focusing on DEI these days. Can’t have so many white male astronauts now days, ya know?
Stop complaining. Work will make you free.
They should unionize!
Calling Teamsters....need big bats
“I think I can make a guarantee that within a week or so of Trump assuming office there will be a SpaceX ship taking these stranded astronauts back home. Boeing be damned.”
This way all the reflected glory goes to Trump, not Joe Biden.
Mr. Boeing’s wife, of course.
But he daid ....
“I’m trying to think of something that the government does well ...”
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Expand.
et phone home...
Hopefully their pay is uplifted when in orbit (hazardous duty).
Somehow, I think it’s funny that she always looks like Medusa.
(Yes, she is a smart, dedicated woman.)
Stealing money from the Citizens.
Be MASSIVELY USELESS !!!
“Their visit was only supposed to be eight days long”
“passengers set sail that day,
for a three hour tour,
a three hour tour.”
“Can you hear me, Major Tom?”
“Tell my wife I love her” ...
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