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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams may be feeling the side effects of a long stay in space – with recent photos showing her significant weight loss. Officials have tried to downplay concerns about their health in recent days and have emphasized that all International Space Station residents be closely monitored by a medical team.
“All NASA astronauts aboard the ISS undergo routine medical evaluations and are monitored by dedicated flight surgeons. All are in good health,” NASA spokesman Jimmy Russell told the Daily Mail last week.
Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore have been in space since June after a failed eight-day mission. The two worked as test pilots for the Boeing Starliner on June 5, but were left ‘stranded’ after their aircraft malfunctioned. The Starliner eventually returned to Earth without its crew after NASA deemed it ‘too risky’ to carry Williams and Wilmore.
Both astronauts have formally continued their work as part of the mission and will return in February next year.
New photos of the astronaut have gone viral on social media, many of which indicate his ‘extreme’ weight loss over the past year. Reports indicate that Williams began the trip weighing about 140 pounds, but struggled to meet the high calorie intake required to maintain his weight while in space.
“His weight has reduced significantly,” he said. Her pounds have melted away and she is now skin and bones. So helping her stabilize her weight loss and hopefully get it back is a priority,” the New York Post quoted a NASA employee directly involved in the mission as saying.
Meanwhile, three NASA astronauts ended their long space mission with a visit to the hospital last month after returning from the ISS on October 25. He was also forced to spend approximately eight months (longer than expected) in orbit due to the Starliner crisis and difficult conditions. Weather conditions on Earth. The trio splashed down on a SpaceX capsule – along with Russian astronaut Alexander Grebenkin – before being taken to a nearby hospital. One in three Americans spent the night there due to an undisclosed “medical issue.”
(with inputs from agencies)
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