With NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore stranded aboard the ISS for months, a decorated former astronaut tells the ABC they would know and have trained for the risks but the view is definitely worth it.
Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will spend an unscheduled nine months aboard the International Space Station after the failure of their Boeing Starliner. NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were supposed to be on a week-long trip to the International Space Station . NASA says it will not bring Captain Williams and Commander Wilmore back to Earth until February, aboard a Space X flight.
"The ISS has six beds and two bathrooms, but because there's no gravity, you don't need a bed: the definition of a bed or a bedroom is kind of arbitrary," Colonel Hadfield told 7.30."The limitation of the Space Station is how much air can it process and purify, how quickly can it recycle the water?" he said.
"I wore the same pair of trousers in space for almost the entire time, and when I finished, they were just as clean as if they'd been hanging in a closet."The weightlessness of space can also be extremely harmful, especially to minds and bodies.
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