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.
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The 2024 version of Gilligan’s Island.
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
They are sure some disciplined people, this must be incredibly challenging.
This is ground control to Butch and Sunita ...... we’re so sorry that we failed.....so sorry that you are screwed
——Too bad David Bowie is not here to write these trapped Astros a proper tune
From EIGHT Days to SEVEN MONTHS ... and, Counting 😱
Prayers continuing.
Much as I admire Musk and invest in Tesla, t’s not a good thing that America’s entire space capability is in the hands of one man and his company. Boeing needs to get its stuff together and hopefully Blue Origin will get serious.
Plus, they haven’t been able to file taxes with the IRS or make quarterly payments.
They could do like Sandra Bullock did in that ‘Gravity’ movie.............
That’s going to add up to one huge per diem check when they return…
Personally, I think the government has given up on the astronauts. They know that THEY aren’t bringing them home so anything that is done will have to be done by Elon Musk. So, the “powers that be” should probably stop their war against Musk since it is his company that is going to have to try to rescue these two.
I've seen a documentary others in a similar situation.
I’m trying to think of something that the government does well ...
The better be working full shifts.
Without any Ginger's or Mary Anne's.
I think that the US may have a major problem recruiting new astronauts to go to the space station.
Except there was not even remotely any “haunting plea”.
An all-geriatric crew.
Our space capability is not in the hands of one man.
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