{"id":25077,"date":"2025-03-31T23:17:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T23:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25077"},"modified":"2025-03-31T23:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T23:23:13","slug":"nasa-astronauts-speak-for-first-time-after-9-month-stay-in-space-at-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25077","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronauts Speak for First Time After 9-Month Stay in Space at ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke in their first news conference since returning to Earth two weeks ago from an unexpectedly long I.S.S. stay that lasted more than nine months.<\/p>\n

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Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were brought back to Earth in a SpaceX capsule after problems with Boeing\u2019s Starliner delayed their return by about nine months.<\/span>Mark Felix\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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After a stay aboard the International Space Station that unexpectedly stretched to nine and a half months, the NASA astronaut Suni Williams is back to doing something she enjoys on Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually went out and ran three miles yesterday,\u201d Ms. Williams, who returned to Earth two weeks ago, said on Monday during a news conference at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston. \u201cSo I will give myself a little pat on the back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Williams and her fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore<\/a> repeatedly expressed gratitude. During Ms. Williams\u2019s remarks, she thanked the two astronauts who had shared the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that give them a ride back to Earth. She thanked NASA. She thanked SpaceX. She thanked Boeing. She thanked the medical team that helped them get accustomed to gravity again.<\/p>\n

Those words of gratitude may have been appreciated by people at the space agency who \u2014 like many federal workers \u2014 are uncertain about their mission, their direction or even their continued employment since President Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore had traveled to orbit in June last year in a test flight of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft for a what had been intended as a brief stay at the International Space Station. But because of problems with Starliner\u2019s propulsion system, NASA officials decided that Starliner should return to Earth empty and that Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore would stay in orbit until February.<\/p>\n

Back on Earth, they have returned to a NASA that is in transition, although what course it will take is not known.<\/p>\n

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Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke in their first news conference since returning to Earth two weeks ago from an unexpectedly long I.S.S. stay that lasted more than nine months.Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were brought back to Earth in a SpaceX capsule after problems with Boeing\u2019s Starliner delayed their return by about nine months.Mark Felix\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty ImagesAfter a stay aboard the International Space Station that unexpectedly stretched to nine and a half months, the NASA astronaut Suni Williams is back to doing something she enjoys on Earth.\u201cI actually went out and ran three miles yesterday,\u201d Ms. Williams, who returned to Earth two weeks ago, said on Monday during a news conference at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston. \u201cSo I will give myself a little pat on the back.\u201dMs. Williams and her fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore repeatedly expressed gratitude. During Ms. Williams\u2019s remarks, she thanked the two astronauts who had shared the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that give them a ride back to Earth. She thanked NASA. She thanked SpaceX. She thanked Boeing. She thanked the medical team that helped them get accustomed to gravity again.Those words of gratitude may have been appreciated by people at the space agency who \u2014 like many federal workers \u2014 are uncertain about their mission, their direction or even their continued employment since President Trump\u2019s inauguration.Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore had traveled to orbit in June last year in a test flight of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft for a what had been intended as a brief stay at the International Space Station. But because of problems with Starliner\u2019s propulsion system, NASA officials decided that Starliner should return to Earth empty and that Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore would stay in orbit until February.Back on Earth, they have returned to a NASA that is in transition, although what course it will take is not known.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25079,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25080,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077\/revisions\/25080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}