US President Joe Biden on Friday joked about going to area to “convey again” the stranded astronauts – referring to Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, who’ve been on the Worldwide House Station (ISS) since June resulting from a Starliner spacecraft malfunction.
Biden made the feedback whereas discussing area exploration with Peru President Dina Boluarte Zegarra at a bilateral assembly.
Stating that the US and Peru are cooperating on area exploration, Biden laughingly stated, “Now, that fellow proper there…the previous senator from Florida (pointing to NASA administrator Invoice Nelson) – a really shut pal of mine – each time my spouse thinks I am getting out of hand, she says that she goes to name him and have him ship me to area.”
“And I am a bit involved he might wish to ship me to area as a result of we received to get some people again dwelling,” the 81-year-old President stated as he laughed.
Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams and her NASA counterpart Barry Willmore have been on the ISS for practically 5 months. They had been launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on June 5 for its first crewed flight and landed on the area station on June 6. It was alleged to be an eight-day mission however now has been stretched into months as they confronted area particles threats, helium leaks, and technical glitches on the Starliner spacecraft.
Based on NASA, it is too dangerous to convey the duo again to Earth at the moment on the malfunctioned capsule.
They may now return dwelling in February subsequent 12 months.
Amid this, stories of Williams’ well being deteriorating have been doing rounds after photographs of her “gaunt” look in area went viral. Nevertheless, earlier this week, she put the rumors to relaxation in a video interview shared by NASA.
Williams asserted that her weight is similar as when she arrived on the ISS.
“I feel my physique has modified a bit bit however I weigh the identical. There are plenty of modifications that go on right here…It is humorous, I feel there are some rumours round that I’m shedding weight and stuff…No, I’m truly proper on the similar quantity. We go weigh ourselves, we’ve got a spring mass…Butch and I weigh ourselves the identical means that I used to be after I received up right here,” she stated.