Two NASA astronauts, Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita 'Suni' Williams, are stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for an extended period due to a SpaceX launch delay. Originally scheduled for a February rescue, the mission has been pushed back to March, meaning the astronauts will spend approximately eight months aboard the ISS. SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, needs additional time to prepare its new Dragon capsule.
Spacewalks are one way to pass the time, we suppose Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore, 61, and Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams, 59, only planned to be floating in the endless abyss of space for a week. Eight days tops. But the two Nasa astronauts have been stuck in the International Space Station since June after a raft of technical hiccups. And they’ll be hundreds of miles above your head for a little while longer – Nasa confirmed that the February rescue mission has been pushed back.
‘Puffy face and chicken legs’ When we suddenly have too much blood in our heads and too little in our legs, what will that do to Butch and Suni? ‘The answer is “puffy face and chicken legs”,’ Professor Mike Tipton from the University of Portsmouth’s Extreme Environments Laboratory told Metro. Blood flow gets screwed up by the near complete absence of gravity, so blood pools in places it shouldn’t ‘Caused by blood volume shifts in space due to microgravity.
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