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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 — even planning to vote in November — the pair revealed in a space to Earth call with the media on Friday.
“We are pushing the edges of the envelope in everything that we do. And it is not easy,” mission commander Butch Wilmore said. “It's not an easy thing to do, but that's not why we do it. Maybe we do it because it's hard.”
Suni Williams, the mission’s pilot, and Wilmore were scheduled to spend just over a week aboard the ISS when they launched into the cosmos on June 5.
It has now been 100 days. And they won't be returning home until February.