Sunita Williams says she and crewmate Barry «Butch» Wilmore have not been «virtually abandoned» in space. This is in contrary to US President Donald Trump's claim that two astronauts «have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden administration». Trump also asked SpaceX founder Elon Musk to «go get» the two «brave astronauts».
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«I don't think I'm abandoned. I don't think we're stuck up here,» Sunita Williams told CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson during an in-flight interview airing Friday night. «We've got food. We've got clothes. We have a ride home in case anything really bad does happen to the International Space Station.
»We're in a posture… where we have the International Space Station fully manned and doing what the taxpayers wanted, to do world-class science. And so I feel honored, like I said, to be here and a part of the team."
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Starliner commander Barry «Butch» Wilmore and co-pilot Sunita Williams, are not «stranded» in any conventional sense, and have not been «abandoned» in space. World's largest space agency NASA is finalizing plans to bring Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore back to Earth along with their two space station crewmates, Crew 9 commander Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov, around March 19,