Astronaut whose return to Earth is delayed says she has “tried to remember what it is like to go”

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Astronaut Suni Williams, who has been stuck in space since June, opens up some of the things she hasn’t done for months.

Williams, who spoke with students at Needham High School from International Space Station (ISS), Monday 27 January, opened for life in the space station, according to CBS AFFILATE WBZ TV.

“I’ve been here long enough right now, I’ve been trying to remember what it’s like to go,” Needham told the students. “I haven’t gone. I haven’t sat down. I have not determined. You don’t have to. You can just close your eyes and float where you are right here. “

Williams, 59 and Colleague NASA Astronaut Butch Wilmore, 61, have been on ISS since June 2024 after their spacecraft Experienced mechanical problems and was in the end sent home Without them.

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Williams also told students that her extended time in space came as “a bit of a shock.”

“We knew it would probably be a month or so, honestly. But the extended stay was just a little different,” she explained, according to WBZ TV.

NASA SUNI Williams, Expedition 72 Flight Engineer and Commander, is a fun holiday season portrait while talking on a ham -radio inside International Space Station's Columbus Laboratory Module.

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Suni Williams, Expedition 72 Flight Engineer and Commander, is a fun holiday season portrait while talking on a ham -radio inside International Space Station’s Columbus Laboratory Module.

Currently, Williams and Wilmore are expected to return to Earth in the spring. In December 2024, NASA advertised that the spacecraft that brings them home will not be ready to be launched before “not earlier than the end of March 2025.”

The pair of astronauts has celebrated several holidays in space including Thanksgiving and Christmas – and in January Williams went after her First space walk Since arriving at the ISS months before.

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Williams and Wilmore self Voted in the US election in 2024 From the room made a process that NASA made “very easy”, according to Wilmore.

The dragon capsule that takes Williams and Wilmore Home Arrived at ISS At the end of September 2024.

NASA Award/EPA-FEE/Shutterstock NASAS Boeing Crew Flight Test Astronauts (from the Top) Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams

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Nasas boeing crew flight test astronauts (from top) Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams

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NASA said earlier that it is Works with SpaceX to “complete treatment” on the dragon space vessel for the mission.

“We appreciate the hard work of the SpaceX team to expand Dragon Fleet to support our missions and flexibility in the station program and expedition crews as we work together to end the new capsule’s emergency preparedness for flight,” Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s commercial crew program said in a statement in December 2024.

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