Sunita Williams Chin 'Deformed' After 9 Months In Space? What Happened To Her? Doctors Weigh In After Videos Go Viral

2025-03-25 02:20:34

(MENAFN- Live Mint) Ever since Sunita Williams' return to Earth on March 18, after a nine-month-stay at the International Space Station (ISS), the NASA astronaut has been caught on camera multiple times. Health experts had already pointed out that it would not be an easy task for Williams and other astronauts to adjust to Earth.

Now, videos are going viral on social media showing Sunita Williams with an apparent deformed and extended chin.

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Doctors weighed in, stating that astronauts experience loss of bone density due to the absence of a gravitational force.

Doctors answer questions about Sunita Williams' chin

Health experts noted that the NASA astronauts experienced several noticeable physical changes, including a shrunken and deformed jawline.

“I don't think people realize that you need gravity to exercise your muscles, and if you don't have gravity, your muscles have nothing to have resistance against,” Dr Vinay Gupta told Mail Online.

'Bone loss on its own...'

NASA explained that exposure to microgravity leads to bone density loss, muscle atrophy, and fluid redistribution in the body.

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Another doctor told Mail Online: "Without gravity, you don't digest food as well. Compromising your ability to digest food is certainly going to contribute to muscle loss and bone loss on its own."

Sunita Williams' 9-month-stay in space

Sunita Williams , and Butch Wilmore embarked into space on June 5, 2024, aboard the Starliner. What was intended as an eight-day mission, expanded into a nine-month long odyssey due to technical faults with Starliner spacecraft.

Sunita Williams was the Starliner Crew Flight Test Pilot. She is the veteran of three space missions (Expeditions 14/15, 32/33 and 71/72). She also served as the ISS commander for Expedition 33.

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