
Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams forced to extend their stay on the ISS – but what’s it really like to be stranded in space?
The IndependentIt wasn’t clear how serious he was being. open image in gallery Nasa astronauts Wilmore and Williams depart the Neil A Armstrong Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to board the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft That decision ended almost three months of speculation about how the pair would get home. In their early days on the space station, much of the pair’s time was spent monitoring Starliner, as engineers struggled to work out how it had gone wrong and whether it might be fixed. It feels good to be in space and work up here with the International Space Station team.” As with any unexpected stay, the pair arrived without the necessary clothes and other supplies for such a long mission, and early on they were forced to ration their clean clothes. The longest amount of time spent on the International Space Station in one go came to an end in March 2022, when American Mark Vande Hei and Russian Pyotr Dubrov arrived back home after a 355-day stint.
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