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    Nasa’s two ‘stuck’ astronauts exit space station for first spacewalk together

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    1. BackItUpWithLinks on

      > Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore expected to stay at space station a week but have been there almost eight months

      Imagine going to work tomorrow and being told you can’t come home until end of August.

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      Edit: I’m getting a bunch of the same replies so I’ll add this

      I get it. They’re astronauts and they’re getting to be in space. Garfield said this:

      > “Astronauts consider themselves ‘stranded’ on Earth, so this is a huge gift,” says Chris Hadfield, a former NASA astronaut, space shuttle pilot and long-term crew commander on the ISS. “It’s the purpose of our profession.”

      I understand.

      But I also have a wife and kids. I can’t imagine thinking I’d be gone for a week (or two, or three) and end up missing birthdays and Christmas and holidays and anniversaries and everything else going on in their lives *when that wasn’t what expected.*

      In other words, if they told me I was going for a year, yes sign me up! If they told me i was going for a week and it ended up being a year, that hits a little different.

    2. Crazy95jack on

      Its almost like being a billionaire. Waking up everyday and end up doing something others could only dream of adding to their bucket list.

    3. Ramblingking on

      They are not stuck, they have a normal seats on a normal spacecraft (a crew Dragon). Calling them stuck when the issue first arose was debatable, it’s now just 100% false.

    4. codemstr on

      When I deployed for the military we had an idea of when we were going home, but nothing is set in stone till your butt is on the plane.
      Stuck isn’t the right word. Waiting is better.
      (Edit grammar)

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