Just weeks after rescuing her children and parents from Ukraine, a Clear Lake mom and her family rallied outside Johnson Space Center to make their voices heard.
CLEAR LAKE, Texas -- A week after rescuing her children and parents from Ukraine, Dr. Julia James is wasting no time fighting for her country.
"I'm sending a message to Russian people, to Russian cosmonauts, that it's a bloody war in Ukraine," she said. As a former university professor in Europe, she often set up virtual conferences between cosmonauts and her students. By using those connections, she began reaching out to those same leaders, and their responses over the last week, she says, were shocking, to say the least.James has seen the wrath of the war first-hand, traveling back to her hometown, Voznesens'k, which is located in the south part of Ukraine near the Black Sea.
Four days later, she, her two children, two other children of friends, a 16-year-old and 20-year-old, made the trip to Hungary. The line of cars to cross was six hours long."They just jumped to the car and . Jumped into car and drove as fast as they can," said James."They fled with only backpacks."