Sony Williams and Boot Willmore remember the turbulence of Starlener’s turbulent journey

When astronauts, Sony Williams and Poch Wilmor, approached the International Space Station (ISS) last year with a failed defenses on Boeing Starlener capsule, they could not fly forward to the dock.

And if they are unable to the sidewalk, they will not know whether they can go home again.

“The laying was necessary,” Mr. Willmur told BBC News, two months after Mrs. Williams with a successful return to Earth. “If we are not able to be the sidewalk, are we able to return? We did not know.”

Space pioneers were traveling on a test trip that was supposed to last eight days. Instead, they ended up staying in space for about 10 months.

The first challenge was the sidewalk safely and successfully in ISS, which they managed to do within several minutes after controlling the mission on the ground helped them restart defenses in the craft.

Mr. Willmur said that the possibility of not seeing the land again “certainly goes through our minds.”

But each of the astronauts said that they did not convey the worst scenarios loudly at those moments, because they were trained to move forward in solving problems.

“I have read each other’s mind and know where we are going with all the failures,” Ms. Williams told the BBC.

“It was not expected,” she confessed. But ideas quickly turned into solutions: “At the same time, as you know, we are like, what do we have? What can we do?”

The husband’s epic began in June 2024. They were participating in the first test trips tested in the Starliner spacecraft, which was developed by Boeing Aerospace.

But after a number of technical problems during their journey, the Starliner’s option that carries astronauts as planned is considered a risk that does not deserve to take – given that the husband can return another company, Spacex.

For this reason, they took place in space until they ride a Spacex capsule. For its part, Boeing confirmed that her own capsule was safe to use – and it has been proven right when the craft returned, without being done, in September 2024.

After months of experiments on the space station, Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor He finally returned to Earth on March 18.

During this stage of their mission, the husband was repeatedly described as the way they were cut off, which means that there is no way for them to get out of ISS.

But this was not the case, because the space station has always had a spacecraft associated with it – which could have been spent in an emergency as a survivor boat to transfer astronauts to Earth.

However, the husband’s stay was longer than expected – although NASA’s husband embraced this.

“We knew that no one would just let us down … we knew that everyone had appeared and was looking for us,” said Williams.

While he was in birds, the couple found themselves in a political rank, after US President Donald Trump blamed his predecessor Joe Biden to abandon them in space.

But astronauts said they ignored politics and did not feel abandoned. “We cannot talk to it at all,” said Mr. Willmore. “We understand that the space journey is difficult, because the human space journey is more difficult.”

After two months on Earth, both astronauts say they feel fit and satisfied, because the exercises they did in the zero gravitational environment bear fruit.

Mr. Wilmor explained that exercising in gravity means that your body does not need much time to recover from daily squatting and deadly killing.

He said he performed squatting and Deadlifts “every day for about 10 months”, which means that he returned to Earth “literally stronger than I was in my life.”

Mrs. Williams agreed – she went after days of landing on the ground, and as soon as she ran the full marathon race in the space associated with the vicinity of the mill – but she said it was not always easy to reset the world weight.

She said, “Just restore gravity on your head and back and all this kind of somewhat painful things.”

Since their return, the couple has been working with NASA and Boeing to repair problems with the spacecraft that broke down them and which took them to space last summer.

“We hope very positively that there will be chances of Boeing Starlener in the future,” said Mr. Willmore.

Both astronauts said they would personally fly in the craft again – as soon as these technical problems are solved.

“It is a very capable spacecraft,” said Williams. “It has unique capabilities compared to other spacecraft that are really great for future astronauts.”