by Cape Canaveral, Florida (AP)-The prominent astronauts by NASA Butch Wilmore and Sununi Williams said on Monday that they are partly responsible for what went wrong in their Spint marathon and would fly again on Boeing’s Starliner.
SpaceX recently brought home the duo at the international space station after more than nine months and returned to earth for Boeing, which returned without it last year.
In their first press conference since his home conference, the couple said that they were surprised by all the interest and insisted that they only did their work and put the mission in front of them and even their families.
Wilmore did not start to accept part of the guilt for Boeing’s confused test flight.
“I will start and show my finger and blame myself. I could have asked some questions and the answers to these questions could have asked the sheet,” he said. “We are all responsible. We all have that.”
Both astronauts said they would buckle again in Starliner. “Because we fix all the problems we have come across. We will fix it. We will get it up and running,” said Wilmore.
Williams noticed that Starliner has “a lot of ability” and she wants it to be successful.
The long -standing astronauts and the retired marine captain spent 286 days in space – 278 days more than planned when they were shot down on Boeing’s first Astronaut flight on June 5. The test pilots had to intervene so that the Starliner capsule reached the space station, failed as Thruster’s failed and held.
Your space station remains away, while the engineers discussed how to proceed. Starliner finally judged NASA too dangerous to bring Wilmore and Williams back, and put them to SpaceX. However, the start of her replacement was stalled and stretched her mission beyond nine months.
President Donald Trump asked the Elon Musk from SpaceX to hurry and added the torture of the stuck astronaut politics. The pushed drama finally ended on March 18 with a flawless splash of SpaceX in front of the Florida Panhandle.
NASA said that engineers still don’t understand why the engines of Starliner worked. Further tests are planned in summer. If engineers can find out the thruster and leak problems, “Starliner is ready to go,” said Wilmore.
The space agency may need a further test flight – with freight – before astronauts rise on board. This repetition could come by the end of the year.
Despite the Rocky Road of Starliner, the NASA officials said that she was behind the decision that was made years ago to have two competing US companies, offer the taxi service and from the space station. But time expires: the space station will be abandoned in five years and replaced by privately operated laboratories in orbit.
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