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Stranded NASA astronauts who are in space till 2025 make 'tough admission' as they break silence

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Published 12:41 16 Sep 2024 GMT+1

Stranded NASA astronauts who are in space till 2025 make 'tough admission' as they break silence

They've admitted to having 'tough times' while stuck in space

Rikki Loftus

Rikki Loftus

The stranded NASA astronauts who are stuck in space until 2025 make a ‘tough admission’ as they break their silence.

Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore and Sunita Williams are still in space after their eight day mission has resulted in months on the International Space Station.

They’ve revealed that they do not feel let down by Boeing but have admitted to experiencing ‘tough times’.

The NASA astonauts are stuck in space (NASA)
The NASA astonauts are stuck in space (NASA)

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The Starliner capsule, which carried the astronauts into space, returned to Earth empty earlier this month and now Wilmore and Williams are waiting until early next year to hitch a ride with SpaceX.

Wilmore had revealed that they’d ‘found some things that we just could not get comfortable with putting us back in the Starliner when we had other options’.

The astronaut spoke at a press conference on September 13 from the ISS, saying: “It’s been quite an evolution over the last three months, we’ve been involved from the beginning through all the processes of assessing our spacecraft, Calypso.

“And it was trying at times. There were some tough times all the way through.

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“You certainly, as the commander and the PLT (pilot) of your spacecraft, you don’t want to see it go off without you, but that’s where we wound up.”

Asked if he felt let down by Boeing after Starliner returned to Earth without its crew, Wilmore said: “Let down? Absolutely not. Never entered my mind. I don’t think Suni’s either, until you mentioned it.”

Wilmore added that Boeing was ‘on board’ with ‘changes that need to be made’ after the company’s Starliner capsule returned to Earth without its crew onboard.

The astronaut told the press conference: “Obviously, when you have issues like we’ve had, there’s some changes that need to be made.

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The two astronauts spoke to the media on September 13 (BBC News/NASA)
The two astronauts spoke to the media on September 13 (BBC News/NASA)

“Boeing’s on board with that. We’re all on board with that.”

Wilmore added: “When you push the edge of the envelope again and you do things with spacecraft that have never been done before, just like Starliner, you’re going to find some things.

“And in this case, we found some things that we just could not get comfortable with putting us back in the Starliner when we had other options.

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“There’s many cases in the past where there have not been other options.

“We were very fortunate that we have the Space Station and that we had the option to stay and we had the option to come back a different way.”

Williams, whose hair floated during the press conference, said the pair missed their families during their extended stay on the International Space Station.

The astronaut added: “I miss my two dogs, I miss my friends. But you know what? Like Butch said, there are so many people on Earth that are sending us messages.

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“And it makes you feel just right at home with everybody when we’re able to have those conversations with our friends and family at home.”

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