TThe longest eight -day Butch Wilmore and Artificial Williams took more than nine months. On June 5, 2024, two NASA astronauses launched a short -riding trip to the International Space Station (ISS) before returning after a week and going home. Williams, a veteran of two long -term station rotation, had a cumulative day for 322 days before the June launch. He was excited about the always planned Quickie mission.
Uz We want to go back as quickly as possible so that they can reverse our spacecraft and take all the learned lessons and include them in the next Starliner, ”he said.
But that wasn’t. The repulsive problems and helium leaks in Starliner concluded that NASA was not suitable for transporting astronauts of the spacecraft home. Instead, the ship left the station and UnprofitableLeaving Wilmore and Williams to join the station rotation, a new SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft is living and working in ISS until they get home to take them home. After many expectations, that ship He interviewed the station on March 16 And two astronauts climbed the ship for an ocean landing on March 18th.
So what kind of emotional settings did Williams and Wilmore have to make a long -term residents from the guests at the station on one night? And so far away from the house and family – and what will be the reaximation of life in the world after sunlight, clean air and simple gravity?
Since the first astronauts and cosmonauts have gone in the air, they have to make a glass crossing between terrestrial and extraterrestrial life, and the results are sometimes funny, sometimes surreal.
In 1965, the astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell spent the record on earth for a week or two. Gemini VII spacecraft. Lovell remembers the recovery ship below USS WASP Shortly after the jump and a NASA psychologist. Lovell was drinking coffee and had a spoon in one hand. Instead, saying the meaning, instead of only a foot on the table and left it to fall with a Clatter. The psychologist looked at him curiously and Lovell shrugged. In Zero-G, he was accustomed to leaving objects in the air two weeks later and getting used to swimming floating where they were.
In 1971, Astronaut Dave Scott had another world experience. Commander Apollo 15Scott walked in a month, returned to Earth, and a few days later, a welcome house was organized by his neighbors. Standing in the backyard, cakes wandered, looked at the sky where a bright moon shone. “A week ago,” he thought incredibly, “I was there.”
Wilmore and Williams, of course, had to prepare themselves to leave themselves in the first place before setting the return to Earth, and at least it was partially rejected. For a long-term space mission, education is physical and mentally equal parts, and this mental track has been training for a mission of just eight days, instead of saying goodbye to all worldly people and things for a year or longer. This comes at a price.
In 2015, Time visited Baikonur Cosmodrome of Russia in Kazakhstan to film the documentary series.A year in space”Astronaut Scott Kelly’s accommodation of nearly 12 months in ISS. Just two days before Kelly’s starting from Baikonur, Time, for a reason for a reason, he spoke with the Astronaut Jeffrey Williams for a reason.
Retired astronaut Mike MassiminoA veteran of two shuttles says the lost family is probably the most difficult mental challenge that Wilmore and Williams face. “Although they love their business and are grateful for the opportunity, there is still a heart trailer to be away from home for a long time, or he says.
Nevertheless, at least, according to all appearances, Wilmore and Williams quickly fit the ISS life cycle – at least in both the station and in the workplace. During space walks There was any indicator.
“Artificial, such a joy for the last eight months,” says retired Astronot Marsha IvinsA friend of five space shuttles and both Wilmore and Williams. “Watching him is contagious.”
“Even though it plans to stay short, we are preparing to stay long,” Wilmore said At a press conference from a recent air to the ground. “This is what we do in human space flight.”
“All career astronauts know the risks that take place in a long or short time and accept these risks when they are connected to the rocket for launch, Ivins Ivins says, Ivins says Ivins. “Most of our education is to learn to cope with unexpected, non -nominal, unexpected status scenarios and still do the job.”
Coming home will offer different difficulties. “The most difficult thing to return to earth in space after months in space is to adapt to gravity,” he says. “NASA’s challenging rehabilitation program was the key to my quick adaptation that I went back to my planet. It wasn’t fun for the first few days, but I was religious to do my daily training and I returned much faster than I expected to driving and normal life.”
Apollo 15 Commander Scott is critical as well as the mental part. “It is important to return from psychological perspective to ‘world mode’, Virt says Virts. “It was like a key to light for me: one day I lived in space and as soon as I returned to Houston, I went back to my normal life. It is really important to have goals and things to wait here because you may or may not be any other chance to fly in space.”
It is too early to tell you if Wilmore or Williams will fly again or whether their extended stay in ISS have recent travels from Earth. In 675, Astronaut Peggy Whitson holds the US record for most cumulative days in space. Williams now Second point In 608 days and Wilmore made a very important 464 registration. If Wilmore and Williams really move away from space, they distinguish themselves as Ivins said nominal Tasks.
“Artificial and Butch accepted an unexpected extension for this grace and humor, or he says. “Their flexibility, adaptability and optimistic versatility show is exactly what he had to hope for a career astronaut in the folding of the established team without any problems, and he is more proud to say to me my friends.”
