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Astronauts take tough questions at media meet
Gulf Today
|April 03, 2025
American astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were stuck at the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months after their space boat last month in Elon Musk’s Space X shuttle, expressed their views at a press conference on Monday.
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They parried questions about their delayed return to earth. They did not blame Boeing for the series of questions and snag that forced them to stay on the space station for nine months instead of 10 days.
Williams answered personal questions about what she did after she returned. Wilmore fielded questions about NASA, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Williams said that the first thing she did after she came out after post-landing incubation for the mandatory medical checks – she embraced her husband and her three pet dogs, and she ate a grilled cheese sandwich as her father was a vegetarian, and she did a three-mile run. She was happy she was able to do the run which was an indirect declaration that her health was good in spite of the prolonged stay in the space station.
This story is from the April 03, 2025 edition of Gulf Today.
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