The NASA astronauts who recently returned from their unexpected nine-month stay on the International Space Station said they would go on the mission again “in a heartbeat.”
During a press briefing on Monday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore opened up about the “unique mission” in their first news conference since returning to Earth.
Their trip to space was supposed to last only eight days, but instead turned into a nine-month stay because of technical problems with the Boeing Starliner capsule.
The duo said that despite the foul-up, they would fly in the Starliner again if the opportunity arose….