In
February,
President
Donald
Trump
claimed
in
a
Truth
Social
post
that
Williams
and
Wilmore
had
been
“virtually
abandoned”
in
space
amid
their
eight-day-turned-eight-month
journey.
However,
following
the
headline-making
comment,
the
astronauts
pushed
back
on
the
president’s
claim.
“We
don’t
feel
abandoned,”
Wilmore
insisted
to
CNN’s
Anderson
Cooper
in
a
Feb.
13
interview. “We
don’t
feel
stuck.
We
don’t
feel
stranded.
We
come
prepared.
We
come
committed.”
Williams
interjected
during
the
interview
that
the
pair
were
“doing
pretty
darn
good,
actually.”
“We’ve
got
food,
we’ve
got
clothes,
we
have
great
crew
members
up
here,”
she
continued.
“Of
course,
it
was
a
little
bit
longer
stay
than
we
had
expected,
but
both
of
us
have
trained
to
live
and
work
on
the
International
Space
Station
and
I
think
we’ve
made
the
most
of
it.”
During
the
interview,
Wilmore
and
Williams
also
confirmed
they’d
be
returning
to
Earth
when
SpaceX
launches
its
Dragon
capsule
March
12.
“They’ll
come
here,
rendezvous
and
dock,”
Wilmore
explained.
“We’ll
do
a
turnover
for
about
a
week
and
we
will
return
on
or
about
the
19th
of
March.”
Celebrity Fails
