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Stranded NASA astronaut says she's lost ability to perform vital bodily function after being in space so long

Daily Mail
By ELLYN LAPOINTE
31 January 2025

One of NASA's stranded astronauts has revealed she has lost the ability to perform several basic tasks after being stranded in space for eight months.

Sunita Williams admitted this week that she has forgotten what it's like to walk after spending 234 days in microgravity.

'I've been up here long enough, right now I've been trying to remember what it's like to walk. I haven't walked. I haven't sat down. I haven't laid down,' she said during a video call with students at Needham High School in Massachusetts on Monday.

Williams, 59 and her crewmate, Barry Wilmore, 62, were supposed to spend eight days on the ISS when they embarked on their mission on June 5, but the Boeing capsule that took them was plagued by technical issues.

The capsule has since returned to Earth empty, leaving the two astronauts stuck on the ISS until at least late March when they can catch a ride home on SpaceX's Crew-9 spacecraft.

President Donald Trump said 'the two brave astronauts' were 'virtually abandoned by the Biden administration' and asked Elon Musk and SpaceX to 'go get' them.

'Elon will soon be on his way. Hopefully, all will be safe,' the president said. 'Good luck Elon!!!'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14338015/stranded-nasa-astronauts-trump-rescue-mission-elon-musk.html

I would lose my freakin' mind if this happened to me. Cannot imagine the horror of this. They put on a brave face, but underneath it all they must be screaming.
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They are both too old to be in space for that long.
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When they get back to Earth, they will have to be put in a sort of 'iron lung' kind of contraption. It will take them weeks to reorient to being back on Earth. They will not be able to walk or see. Like long deployment submariners, when your sight is restricted to only a few feet over a long period of time, you cannot see long distances. It takes time to adjust.

After they lay in the pod for a while to get reintroduced to gravity, then they will be able to begin physical therapy to be able to walk again, to eat, to go to the bathroom, and to get around on their own. It will be a gentle long-term process.
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They are both too old to be in space for that long.
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Lesson learned, don’t sign up to be guinea pigs for untested/unproven technology.

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It's so sad.

I hope she and the other gentleman can get home soon
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Im just gonna go out and say it; there’s nothing even in space, not around us anyway. Bunch of lifeless rockets floating around.

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Im just gonna go out and say it; there’s nothing even in space, not around us anyway. Bunch of lifeless rockets floating around.


There’s also a red Tesla out there
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It's so sad.

I hope she and the other gentleman can get home soon

I'm not sure, but I thought help to get them back home is on the way from Elon.
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Wonder how much Xanax is on that ship?

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Leave it to Biden to strand US astronauts in space.  FJB
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There’s also a red Tesla out there

Its Major Tom's ride home
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