It may not be shocking to learn that the NASA astronauts who were “stuck” in orbit had a somewhat different appearance after a demanding nine months in space. After being’stranded’
On the ISS since June of last year, NASA astronauts Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore and Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams were returned to Earth on Tuesday, March 18, onboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
After their splash landing off the Gulf Coast, close to Tallahassee, Florida, we saw the crew being hauled away on stretchers before they could even take a single foot on land,
Demonstrating NASA’s obvious awareness that being away from home for so long is likely to have a negative impact on their health. In addition to actually inhaling oxygen from the air,
Wilmore and Williams are experiencing gravity on their bones for the first time in nine months, which in and of itself raises a number of possible health concerns.
