NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore want to clear up any cosmic confusion about their prolonged space trip.
Three weeks after President Donald Trump said the astronauts had been “virtually abandoned” on the International Space Station, where they have been for eight months instead of the eight days they were supposed to spend there, the two spoke about how they feel about their predicament.
“We don’t feel abandoned,” Wilmore, 62, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in a Feb. 13 interview. “We don’t feel stuck. We don’t feel stranded. We come prepared. We come committed.”
Floating beside Wilmore, Williams, 59, added the two were “doing pretty darn good, actually.”
Indeed, as experienced astronauts, spending time in space isn’t something they were unprepared for.
“We’ve got food, we’ve got clothes, we have great crew members up here,” she continued. “Of course, it was a little bit longer stay than we had expected, but both of us have trained to live and work on the International Space Station and I think we’ve made the most of it.”
