Do not consider the tabloids: NASA astronaut Suni Williams says she’s doing simply superb aboard the Worldwide Area Station (ISS).
Final week, media shops reminiscent of The Every day Mail and The New York Publish printed tales speculating that Williams’ well being could also be deteriorating in Earth orbit, citing an out of doors physician’s opinion that she seems to be “gaunt” in some latest images.
NASA officers shortly refuted these claims, saying Williams and the opposite three company astronauts presently residing on the ISS are in good well being. And now, Williams herself has delivered the identical message.
“I am the identical weight that I used to be once I acquired up right here,” Williams stated as we speak (Nov. 12) in a video interview from the ISS, in response to a query from the New England Sports activities Community.
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Williams stated she’s been figuring out assiduously on the orbiting lab, as all astronauts do to stave off the muscle losing and loss in bone density that may include long-duration publicity to microgravity.
She’s been driving an train bike, working on a treadmill and lifting weights on the ISS, and her physique has modified because of this.
“I may positively inform that weightlifting, which isn’t one thing that I do on a regular basis, has positively modified me. My thighs are a bit of bit greater, my butt is a bit of bit greater,” Williams stated.
However, she harassed, “I weigh the identical.”
Williams arrived on the ISS on June 6 with fellow NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, on the first-ever crewed mission of Boeing’s Starliner capsule.
That mission, referred to as Crew Flight Check (CFT), was speculated to final simply 10 days or so. Nevertheless, Starliner skilled thruster points on its strategy to the orbiting lab. NASA prolonged CFT to check the issue intimately and in the end determined to carry Starliner dwelling with out anybody on board, which occurred on Sept. 6.
Williams and Wilmore will come again to Earth in February 2025 with the 2 astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission, who arrived in late September.
Williams instructions the orbiting lab’s Expedition 72. The opposite members of the mission presently residing on the ISS are Wilmore, fellow NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague, and Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner.
