NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to earth on March 18th after spending 9 unanticipated months in space when they were ‘stranded’ and asked to complete an additional tour. Their additional time in space was highly politicized but in their first interview since returning to earth, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams refused to cast blame or point fingers after being stranded.
Their interview debuted today on FoxNews’ America’s Newsroom and it is the first time the public got to hear directly from the two stranded NASA astronauts. Hearing about their experience directly from the astronauts adds desperately-needed context to their divisive delay in space.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were asked straight up “so the plan was for 8 days and I’m wondering how you prepped for that versus a trip that lasts 286 days?”
Butch Wilmore was obviously ready for that question and responded by saying “we prepped as if we were going to stay long… Planning for the short mission, our focus was on the mission, the Starliner portion of the mission, first flights/test flight, and that was our focus. But we trained for everything.”
Wimore went on to add that they’d trained for “maintenance on the station, science on the station, space walks on station, robotics/arm work on the station… We trained for it…more
Source brobible.com
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