NASA astronauts 'Butch and Suni' emerge from recovery after Starliner mission
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the US astronauts left on the International Space Station last year by Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule, are on the up after returning to Earth in March, emerging from weeks of physical therapy to ramp up work with Boeing and various NASA programs.
Wilmore and Williams, who set off for an eight-day Starliner test flight that turned into a nine-month stay in space, have undergone a 45-day readaptation period to recondition their muscles, balance, and other bodily functions affected by long-term spaceflight. They’ve spent at least two hours daily with NASA’s medical team while also resuming work with Boeing’s Starliner program, NASA’s Houston-based ISS division, and agency researchers.
REUTERS / NASA TV
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Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the US astronauts left on the International Space Station last year by Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule, are on the up after returning to Earth in March, emerging from weeks of physical therapy to ramp up work with Boeing and various NASA programs.
Wilmore and Williams, who set off for an eight-day Starliner test flight that turned into a nine-month stay in space, have undergone a 45-day readaptation period to recondition their muscles, balance, and other bodily functions affected by long-term spaceflight. They’ve spent at least two hours daily with NASA’s medical team while also resuming work with Boeing’s Starliner program, NASA’s Houston-based ISS division, and agency researchers.
REUTERS / NASA TV
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00:00Well, right now, we're just coming off of the rehab portion of our return, getting back into some of the debriefs.
00:08We actually finished our debriefs tomorrow, and then we'll eventually get back into those type of roles and specifically what we'll be involved with.
00:16Certainly, we will have some insight and some interaction with the Boeing folks and NASA that works those programs, but who knows what we'll be working on as time goes on.
00:25Like we're getting our next crew member here. That is none other than Sonny Williams. Big smile, big waves. She, like her other crew.
00:36There we have it. Some waves, some thumbs up, and some smiles. We're getting some views of him now as he egresses or exits the spacecraft.
00:55I think initially, we'll start from the very beginning. Pulling Gs for 30-plus years, I don't have a great – I've got some issues in my neck.
01:06I can't turn my head all the way. But in space, that goes away. You don't have any stress on your body, no problem with my neck.
01:12We're still floating in the capsule in the ocean, and my neck starts hurting while we're still – it hasn't even been extracted yet.
01:21So anyway, gravity stinks for a period, and that period varies for different people.
01:26But eventually, you get over that neurovestibular balance type of issues, and then your back is not used to holding up your structure, so the muscles tense up.
01:35So that was really the first month to 45 days of that, and then we graduated and, you know, back to normal.
01:42And I felt, though, honestly, I was still tired. Like, all the little muscles are getting reengaged, and so it kept me being – like, not being able to wake up like I normally like to wake up early in the morning
01:52until about a week and a half ago. Then I'm, like, up at 4 in the morning. I'm like, aha, I'm back.
01:58So, you know, I think all of that just takes a little while to get back to gravity, just like Butch said.
02:03It's just a little bit of a readaptation, and then, you know, we're here, and we're feeling fine.
02:10It's been a little bit of a whirlwind because we also have obligations to all of our – the folks that we worked with, you know,
02:15the International Space Station program, you know, the Boeing-NASA team for Starliner, the science program.
02:21So we've been doing debriefs also for the last month or so, so it's been pretty busy.
02:25So just to kind of finish off what I was saying is once that side hatch of the spacecraft is open,
02:32that crew will be assisted out of the capsule one by one.
02:35I think that would probably be a smart thing to do just to make sure everybody feels good about the spacecraft
02:41and they've taken care of the issues that we saw when we were up on board.
02:45So it seems like the logical thing to do. I think we're pressing in that direction.
02:50And like I said, you know, I think that's the correct path.
02:54You know, just like SpaceX had cargo vehicles, you know, the Russians also have cargo vehicles,
02:59and they test out new concepts on those cargo vehicles before they implement them into ones that have humans on board.
03:05And it seems like a logical path, so hoping Boeing and NASA will decide on that same course of action.
03:11There's obviously, if you get into a situation like we were in, there's obviously some things that were missed, right?
03:20That's obvious. Even to the casual observer.
03:23Why were they missed? We've got to figure that out.
03:27And we need to correct that, those reasons why they were missed.
03:31And the things that were missed, we have to correct those as well.
03:35And that's the process that we're undergoing right now.
03:38And those details are varied and more, like I said, more time than we have right now to discuss.
03:45But that's the pathway that we're on.
03:46And that's the pathway that we're on.
04:16And that's the pathway that we're on.