Cabo Cañaveral, Florida – POT Two struggled astronauts They are just a few weeks after finally returning to Earth after nine months in space.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams I have to wait until your replacements get to the International Space Station Next week before they can visit this month.
They will join on their Spacex home trip two astronauts who threw themselves in September together with two empty seats.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Wilmore said that while politics is part of life, he did not play at his and Williams, increased a couple of weeks thanks to a change in Spacex capsules. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk of Spacex said at the end of January that they wanted to accelerate the return of astronauts, blaming the previous administration.
But Williams, in response to a question, disagreed with Musk’s recent call to turn the space station in two years, instead of waiting until NASA projected Deorbit in 2031. He observed all the scientific research carried out in the orbiting laboratory.
“This place is marking. It is really surprising, so I would say that we are really at our best time at this time, “said Williams, a three -time resident of the space station.” I think that at this time it is probably not the right time to say that I give up, don’t do it. “
Williams said he can’t wait to meet his farmer retrievers. The most difficult part of the unexpected extended stay, he added, was the waiting of their families at home.
“It has been a roller coaster for them, probably a little more than for us,” he said. “We are here. We have a mission. We are only doing what we do every day, and every day it is interesting because we are in space and it is very fun.”
Wilmore and Williams expected to have left just a week or so when they launched last June on board The new Boeing Starliner capsulemaking your debut in the crew after years late. The Starliner had so many problems to reach the space station that NASA ruled too dangerous to take anyone and flew empty.
His return home was further delayed for the additional completion time necessary for the new Spacex capsule that was supposed to deliver their replacements.
Last month, NASA announced that the next crew would be launched in a used capsule, pushing takeoff to March 12. The two crews will spend approximately one week together aboard the space station before Wilmore and Williams go out with NASA Hague Hague and the Russian space agency Alexander Gorbunov.
Wilmore and Williams, captains of the Navy retired and flyers of repeated space, have insisted on the months that are healthy and committed to the mission whenever necessary. They took a space walk together in January.
They will carry generic Spacex flight suits for the return trip, not the usual custom attire with their names because their trip home in a dragon capsule was not planned. That is fine for them, although Wilmore hinted that he could use a pen to write his name in his suit.
“We are just Butch and Suni,” said Williams. “Everyone knows who we are now.”
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