Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore have almost accomplished a visit across the solar.
After the NASA astronauts turned stranded in house again in June attributable to a malfunction with their Starliner craft, they’ve formally reached six months in house, leaving solely two extra remaining of their prolonged journey.
Though the colleagues had meant their June mission to solely final eight days after departing from Earth this summer season, a leak of their Boeing plane—associated to its propulsion—has left them stranded on the Worldwide Area Station (ISS).
However whereas Williams and Wilmore’s voyage took an sudden flip, the astronauts are benefiting from their extra time on the ISS. In spite of everything, Williams lately detailed the duo’s Thanksgiving meal, which included a menu with all the right fixings—in dehydrated house pouch kind, in fact.
“We have now a bunch of meals that we’ve packed away that’s Thanksgiving-ish,” the 58-year-old informed NBC Nightly Information with Lester Holt Nov. 27. “Some smoked turkey, some cranberry, apple cobbler, inexperienced beans and mushrooms and mashed potatoes.”
