By Joey Roulette
Washington (Reuters) -Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the American astronauts left last year at the International Space Station through Boeing's troubled Starliner Capsule, are aware after returning to earth in March in March, the weeks of physiotherapy to work with Boeing and various NAS programs.
“At the moment we are just coming out of the rehabilitation section of our return,” Wilmore, 62, told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday. “Gravity stinks for a period and that period varies for different people, but in the end you come across that neurostibular balance problems.”
Wilmore and Williams, who left last year for an eight-day Starliner-Test flight that swollen in space in a nine-month-old stay, have their muscles, feeling of balance and other basic principles that had to live in a period of 45 days before astronauts had to return that return from long-term space emissions.
The astronaut duo spent at least two hours a day with astronaut strength and reconditioning officers within the medical unit of NASA while juggling with an increasing workload with the Starliner program Van Boeing, Nasa's Space Station Unit in Housston and researchers from the agency.
“It has been a bit of a whirlwind,” said Williams, 59, in the interview. “Because we also have obligations towards all the people we worked with.”
Williams said that some of her post-spaceFlight side effects were slower to clean up and that she felt tired in late stages of recovery, because dozens of different muscles were re-engaged. That made it difficult for her to wake up as early in the morning as she wants, until a little more than a week ago.
“Then I will get up at four in the morning, and I am so of, aha! I am back,” she said.
Wilmore had some problems with his back and neck before he went to space, because he could not turn completely to the side, he said. That all left the room where “you have no stress on your body.”
When he returned in March, gravity greeted him with the neck pain he left on earth.
“We are still floating in the capsule in the ocean, and my neck is starting to hurt, while we had not even been extracted,” he said laughing.
The human body, evolved for millions of years in the severity of the earth's surface, was not intended for space travel.
The absence of gravity causes a series of physical effects over time, such as muscle atrophy or cardiovascular shifts that can cause a chain reaction of other health changes. Insurance in a small space and higher solar radiation in the room, without the protection of the atmosphere of the earth, have other effects.
Starliner -Problems
Problems of the propulsion system about Boeing's Starliner forced NASA to return the capsule without its crew last year and to fold the two astronauts in its normal, long -term rotation schedule on the ISS.
Boeing, which has taken $ 2 billion in the development of Starliner, is confronted with an imminent decision by NASA to write the spacecraft separately before it wears people again. Boeing spent $ 410 million to fly a similarly detached mission in 2022 after a test error 2019.
Reflying Starliner -Los written “seems to be the logical thing to do,” said Williams, who drew comparisons with the SpaceX of Elon Musk and Russian capsules that flew up unwritten missions before they put people on board. She and NASA insist on that result, Williams added.
“I think that's the right path,” said Williams, who “hopes that Boeing and Nasa will soon decide on the same way of acting”.
The results of Starliner Testing are expected to determine in the summer whether the spacecraft can fly people during the next flight, NASA officials have said.
(Reporting by Joey Roulette; Edit by Jamie Freed)
