NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have spoken publicly for the first time since the Boeing Starliner departed from the International Space Station (ISS) without them. In a news conference from the ISS held Friday, the pair spoke about dealing with the uncertainty around whether they could fly home on the Starliner and the adjustment from what they expected to be an eight-day mission to staying on the space station for eight months.
“It was trying at times. There were some tough times, all the way through,” Wilmore said. “As the commander and [pilot] of your spacecraft, you don’t want to see it go off without you. But that’s where we wound up.”
