In a press conference on Tuesday, Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams spoke about their nine months aboard the International Space Station in advance of their return home.
Originally appeared on
family is definitely feeling the space between.
Watch 온라인카지노사이트 5 free wherever you are
Wilmore and his fellow NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams have been since June due to equipment issues with their Boeing Starliner spacecraft, extending what was to be an eight-day mission indefinitely.
And nearly , his teenage daughter Daryn Wilmore is speaking out about the ordeal.
Get top local stories delivered to you every morning with 온라인카지노사이트 DFW's News Headlines newsletter.
"There's a lot of things that I'm not at liberty to say, and that I don't know fully about," she began in an interview with the published on March 6. "But there's been issues. There's been negligence. And that's the reason why this has just kept getting delayed. There's just been issue after issue after issue."
And while Wilmore and Williams are projected to return back to earth this spring, Daryn understands that "things could always change."
"We've had so many changes," she continued, "and it's a bit mentally exhausting."
U.S. & World
READ
Daryn added, “It's been hard if we're completely honest.”
Indeed, there have been several hiccups in bringing Wilmore and Williams home. The two were scheduled leave the ISS in February, but their departure has since been .
Wilmore and Williams were also not permitted to fly back on the SpaceX Crew-8 craft—which —since all the seats were taken by astronauts who had been at the ISS since March 2024.
Still, Daryn said her father is keeping his chin up amid the delays.
"He's just been bummed, but he's fine," she shared. "My dad is very resilient."
NASA has shared how it’s been making efforts to ensure a safe return for Wilmore and Williams. In fact, part of the reasons why their return has been postponed is due to safety, according to the agency's chief of astronaut office NASA administrator Bill Nelson.
“Spaceflight is risky, even at its safest and most routine," he said in a December statement, after Wilmore and William's Boeing Starliner was . "The decision to keep Butch and Suni aboard the International Space Station and bring Boeing’s Starliner home uncrewed is the result of our commitment to safety: our core value and our North Star."
And while President recently said the astronauts were "," Butch himself has a different outlook.
"That's been the narrative from day one: stranded, abandoned, stuck—and I get it," he in February, "but that is, again, not what our human spaceflight program is about."
He added, "We don’t feel abandoned, we don’t feel stuck, we don’t feel stranded.”
