“We have always been back, and I think people needed to know that.” This is how NASA Poch’s astronaut Wilmor, and his colleague in the astronaut Sony Williams, said questions for the first time since his return from their long stay expected in orbit.
Willmore and Williams flew to the International Space Station (ISS) in June 2023 on the first flight of Starlener Space Coast from Boeing. The test mission was supposed to last only eight days, but technical problems with the spacecraft prompted NASA to bring the car to the house empty, leaving Wilmur and Williams waiting for the house.
NASA decided to stick to the usual crew rotation system, which means sending a-9 crew in September with less spacecraft than he was originally planned, leaving two seats for Lilmore and Williams when the mission of the 9th crew ended on March 18, after nine months of leaving the ground.
Many news reports described at that time how the couple was “stranded” or “stuck” in space, but NASA was safely running the situation and the husband was not in any danger.
Talk to journalists in NASA press conference On Monday, Williams said that Wilmor knew very well that the external trip was a test trip, but when it did not turn as it is planned, the training years and tropical experience were operated and they just continued to work.
“We are international members of the members of the space station crew, and we do what all other friends do in the astronaut’s office – going, training, training and doing amazing scientific experiments at the International Space Station,” Williams said.
When asked about who was responsible for the unexpected result of the mission, Willmour replied: “I will start with me. There were questions I was, as the commander of the spacecraft, that I should ask her and I did not do that. At that time, I did not know that I needed to do so, and perhaps I was able to call this turn, but I will start and refer to the finger and ask me.”
But Wilmor also added that he is next to himself, NASA and Boeing “everything he possesses … We will not look back … We will look forward and say,” What will we use, our lessons that I learned, from this entire process “and make sure we are successful in the future.”
In response to a question about the politicization of the task, with President Trump and President of Spickes Elon Musk, they accuse the Biden administration of prohibiting efforts to bring astronauts to the house early, the 9th Nick Hao Astronomer pioneer said, and also at the press conference, he said: “When we deal with it in space, you do not feel politics, you do not feel any of that. It focuses strictly.
It is worth noting that each of the astronauts described the Starlener spacecraft from Boeing as “very capable”, with the addition of Wilmore that he will ride it again if the opportunity arises at all.
“We will correct all the problems we faced,” Wilmur said. “We will fix it, and we will succeed in work. Boeing is fully committed. NASA is completely committed. However, I will continue to the heartbeat.”
Many correspondents were also curious about the first things that astronauts did when they arrived at home. He embraced the list of the list, as Williams also embraced her dogs before enjoying the grilled cheese sandwich.
According to Lilims, only when they returned to Terra Verma, they fully realized the extent of interest in the mission.
“When we went back to the house, it was so,” Wow, there are a lot of interested people, “Williams said, adding that she was” very thankful, very surprised because we hope to be a positive element to collect people. “