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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams says "we don't feel abandoned" or "stuck" as space mission stretches on

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Astronaut Sunita Williams says she and crewmate Barry "Butch" Wilmore have not been "virtually abandoned" in space.

President Trump last month blamed the Starliner crew's overall mission extension on the Biden administration.

NASA is finalizing plans to bring Williams and Wilmore back to Earth around March 19 , sources say.

Crew 9 Dragon is already docked at the International Space Station .

NASA has tentatively decided to switch the Crew 10 fliers — commander Anne McClain , pilot Nichole Ayers , Japan 's Takuya Onishi and cosmonaut Kirill Peskov — to a different Crew Dragon.

Crew 10 is expected to be assigned to a Crew Dragon that had been earmarked for a commercial flight to the station.

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