NASA astronaut Sunita Williams says "we don't feel abandoned" or "stuck" as space mission stretches on
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Contrary to a recent social media post from President Trump, Starliner astronaut Sunita Williams says she and crewmate Barry "Butch" Wilmore have not been "virtually abandoned" in space, despite a mission that's been extended from a little more than one week to more than nine months.
"I don't think I'm abandoned. I don't think we're stuck up here," she 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."
