Rescued astronauts share first reactions to hearing they would stay in space longer than original timeline

By Emily Crane | New York Post

US astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have revealed their first reactions after learning their week-long test flight was about to turn into a nine-month space odyssey.

“My first thought was, ‘We just got to pivot, right?,’” Williams, 59, said in a sitdown interview with Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”

“I was like, ‘OK, let’s make the best of it.’ We planned, we trained that we’d be there for some part of a time, so we were ready to just jump into it and take on the tasks that were given to us.”

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