Recently, a number of Western tabloids, such as the New York Post and the Daily Mail, began to spread information that NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore had lost a lot of weight and that doctors of the American space agency began to monitor them closely. health.

In response to these statements, Williams himself spoke first and emphasized that everything was fine for him. Then NASA intervened. J.D. Polk, the space agency’s chief expert on health and medicine, dismissed rumors of health problems, saying the astronauts were in “absolutely excellent health and good condition.”

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were stranded on the ISS due to technical problems in the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. According to the original mission plan, they were supposed to spend a little more than a week in space, but they have been on the orbital outpost for almost six months and will only return home in winter.