NASA’s astronaut Sunita Williams and Buch Wilmor thanked US President Donald Trump and SpaceX owner Elon Musk for helping them to bring them back from the International Space Station (ISS), where they stayed for nine months after the malfunction of his Boeing Starliner spacecraft, beating a mission for a long time.
In an interview by Fox News, two astronauts said that space flight is difficult, and it is difficult to use new technology to try to further further.
On a question whether Boeing “spoiled it”, Mr. Wilmore said he does not indicate fingers on anyone.
“… In some cases, we were trapped. In some cases, perhaps we were stuck. But on the basis of how they were thought that we were left and forgotten and all that, we were nowhere, we were not anywhere, we were nowhere. So, okay, the way we were planning, we did not come home.
Ms. Williams said that she is ready in such a way that she was going to stay for a long time while planning a short mission.
“Our focus was on the mission, the starlineer part of the mission, the first flights, the test flight. And it was our focus, but we trained for everything. Maintenance at the station, science at the station at the station, spacewalks, robotics, working at the station. We were trained for all. And we were ready to do anything that we were told for a long period,”
“Again, planning for one thing, preparing for another. And it’s not unique to us. It is a human space flight program. It is the same that every person, army that supports human space flight … it is emotional about human space flight … do. Do. We plan for many contingencies because we have a difficult business.”
Mr. Wilmore indicated that it would be wrong to blame anyone for whatever happened to his mission.
“… There are many questions that as the commander of the CFT (Crew Flight Test), I have not asked. So I am guilty. I will accept that for the nation. There are things that I asked that I should not have asked. I did not know that I needed to ask him.
“Is NASA convicted? Are they guilty? Certainly. Everyone has a piece because it did not close. There were some shortcomings in the tests, the preparations that we did not predict. So, yes, yes, do you not want to point fingers? I hope no one wants to point finger.
“We want to look forward and say, let us improve what we have learned and let’s make the future even more productive and better. This is the way I look at it. I think the way the nation should see it, the way the nation should see it,” Mr. Wilmore said.
Two NASA Crew -9 astronauts returned to Earth on March 18 in SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule.
President Trump alleged that his predecessor Joe Biden left astronauts in space. On 7 March, he announced that he allowed Mr. Musk to bring back two American astronauts.
