Astronaut Stuck in Space Now ‘Trying to Remember What It’s Like to Walk’

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Astronaut Stuck in Space Now ‘Trying to Remember What It’s Like to Walk’



Astronaut Suni Williams, who has been caught in area since June, is opening up about a few of the issues she hasn’t performed in months.

Speaking with college students at Needham High School from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, Jan. 27, Williams opened up about life within the area station, based on CBS affiliate WBZ-TV.

“I’ve been up right here lengthy sufficient proper now I’ve been making an attempt to recollect what it is prefer to stroll,” the Needham native advised the scholars. “I have never walked. I have never sat down. I have never laid down. You do not need to. You can simply shut your eyes and float the place you’re proper right here.”

Williams, 59, and fellow NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, 61, have been on the ISS since June 2024 after their spacecraft skilled mechanical points and was finally despatched again residence with out them.

Williams additionally advised college students her prolonged time in area got here as “just a little little bit of a shock.”

“We knew that it will be in all probability a month or so, truthfully. But the prolonged keep was just a bit bit completely different,” she defined, based on WBZ-TV.

Suni Williams, Expedition 72 flight engineer and commander, pose for a enjoyable vacation season portrait whereas talking on a ham radio contained in the International Space Station’s Columbus laboratory module.

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Currently, Williams and Wilmore are anticipated to return to Earth within the spring. In December 2024, NASA introduced that the spacecraft that can convey them residence gained’t be able to launch till “no earlier than late March 2025.”

The pair of astronauts have celebrated a number of holidays in area, together with Thanksgiving and Christmas — and in January, Williams went for her first spacewalk since arriving on the ISS months prior.

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Williams and Wilmore even voted within the 2024 U.S. elections from area, a course of that NASA made “very straightforward,” based on Wilmore.

The Dragon capsule that can take Williams and Wilmore residence arrived on the ISS in late September 2024.

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts (from prime) Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

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NASA beforehand mentioned it’s working with SpaceX to “full processing” on the Dragon spacecraft for the mission. 

“We appreciate the hard work by the SpaceX team to expand the Dragon fleet in support of our missions and the flexibility of the station program and expedition crews as we work together to complete the new capsule’s readiness for flight,” Steve Stich, supervisor of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, mentioned in an announcement in December 2024.

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