the families of Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams are raising awareness of the astronauts plight while they are still stranded in space NASA had to postpone the pairs return to Earth by several months because the Boeing Starliner capsule they flew on June 5th for an initial test mission which was initially scheduled to last 8 Days had Thruster failures and helium leaks before docking successfully at the International Space Station in a recent remote interview Butch's wife Deana Wilmore told Knoxville Tennessee TV station wvlt you know we sort of don't expect him until February February or March Deanna continued he just takes it knowing the Lord's in control and that since the Lord's in control of it that he's content where he is sitting between the couple's daughters Darren 19 and Logan 16 you just sort of have to roll with it and expect the unexpected but's wife stated of herself Michael Williams Sunni spouse told the Wall Street Journal last week that he didn't believe she was upset about ending up spending more time at the space station since that's her happy place during a media teleconference on August 14th NASA's Chief astronaut Joe akaba stated if Butch and Sunni do not come home on Starliner and they are kept aboard the station they will have about 8 months on orbit he continued we have done multiple successful long duration missions even up to a year as Sunni 58 and Butch 61 who have already visited the International Space Station is on previous missions along along with Boeing and NASA continue to assess the spacecraft's damage and Carry Out testing the government agency is considering two options for safely returning the two making repairs or having them board crew Dragon a ship built by Elon Musk SpaceX company