Astronaut Sunita Williams, who has been in space for five months, has lost a lot of weight (3 photos)
The worst thing is that it is impossible to return the astronauts to Earth yet!
Another scandal has erupted at NASA. This time, everyone is concerned about the condition of astronaut Sunita Williams, who has been hanging out in space for five months now. As part of Crew-8, the astronauts were supposed to go into orbit on June 6, 2024. This was the first manned flight of the Starliner spacecraft, which NASA had high hopes for. However, as we know, everything went wrong, and the astronauts went a little later. In the end, four astronauts returned, and two - Sunita Williams and Barry (Butch) Wilmore remained in orbit.
The worst thing is that they will only be able to pick them up in February 2025, when Crew-9 is launched into orbit. In the meantime, NASA is publishing photos from orbit in which the astronauts are visible. In the photo, they are eating pizza and look quite healthy, but Internet users have noticed that Sunita looks worse - she has lost weight and also looks very exhausted. The Daily Mail even writes that the photos of the ISS astronaut that appeared on social networks show "shocking weight loss" and "deterioration of the physical condition of the stranded NASA astronaut."
What you see in this photo is, in my opinion, a person experiencing the natural stress associated with living at high altitude, even in a pressurized cabin, for a long time, - says the doctor.
However, NASA reported that everything is fine with the astronauts, they are undergoing examinations and are generally completely healthy. However, sources at NASA say that in fact everyone is worried.