{"id":788990,"date":"2024-09-13T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T21:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=788990"},"modified":"2024-09-13T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T21:15:50","slug":"stranded-nasa-astronauts-plan-to-vote-from-space-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=788990","title":{"rendered":"Stranded NASA astronauts plan to vote from space : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n This image made from a NASA live stream shows NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore during a press conference from the International Space Station on Friday.
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The NASA astronauts who were left stranded on the International Space Station because of technical issues with their spacecraft are keeping in good spirits \u2014 even planning to vote in November \u2014 the pair revealed in a space to Earth call with the media on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pushing the edges of the envelope in everything that we do. And it is not easy,\u201d mission commander Butch Wilmore said. \u201cIt’s not an easy thing to do, but that’s not why we do it. Maybe we do it because it’s hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suni Williams, the mission\u2019s pilot, and Wilmore were scheduled to spend just over a week aboard the ISS when they launched into the cosmos on June 5.<\/p>\n