By Joy Roulette
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bothe Wilmor and Sony Williams, American astronauts who left at the International Space Station last year by the turbulent Starlener capsule in Boeing, after returning to Earth in March, they left weeks of physical therapy to intensify work with Boeing and various NASA programs.
“At the present time, we are just getting out of the rehabilitation part of our return.” “Attractive denials for a while, and that period varies for different people, but in the end it overcomes the type of nervous balance in issues.”
Willmore and Williams, who started last year on the eight -day Starlener test trip that inflated a nine -month stay in space, had to read their muscles, feel balanced and other essential essentials that live in the 45 -day period of astronauts returning from space tasks in the long term.
The bilateral pioneer spent at least two hours a day with the power of the astronaut and the renewal of NASA’s medical unit officials while wandering the growing work burden with the Starlener program in Boeing, and the NASA space station unit in Houston and the agency’s researchers.
“She was a little bit,” Williams, 59, said in the interview. “Because we also have obligations to all the people we have worked with.”
Williams said that some of its side effects after the pancakes were slower in getting rid of them and felt tired in the late stages of healing, where dozens of different muscles were re -involved. This made it difficult for her to wake up early in the morning as you like, even a little more than a week ago.
She said, “Then I am awake at four in the morning, and I am like, oh! I went back.”
He said that Willmore had some problems in his back and neck before heading to space, and he was unable to turn his head to the side. Everything has gone in space as “you have no pressure on your body.”
When he returned in March, he received the gravity with the pain of the neck he left on the ground.
“We are still softening the capsule in the ocean, and my neck begins to harm, while we have not been extracted yet,” he said.
The human body, which has evolved over millions of years in the danger of the surface of the earth, was not intended for space light.
The absence of gravity leads to a set of physical effects over time, such as muscle atrophy or cardiovascular transformations that can cause a series of other health changes. Imprisonment in a small area and high solar radiation in space, without protecting the Earth’s atmosphere, has other effects.
Starliner problems
NASA’s Starliner’s payment system problems forced the capsule without its crew last year and folded astronauts in the long natural rotation schedule on ISS.
Boeing, who received $ 2 billion of charges on the development of Starlener, faces a looming decision by NASA to refute the spacecraft that was not held before carrying humans again. Boeing spent $ 410 million to fly a similar similar task in 2022 after the 2019 test failed.
Williams said, “Starliner Uncrewed” appears to be the logical thing to do. ” Elon MuskSpacex and Russian capsules that flew missions are not available before humans were placed on board. Williams added that she and people pay for this result.
Williams, who hopes that Boeing and NASA decide that this is the right track.
NASA officials said that the results of the STARLINER were planned during the summer are expected to determine whether the spacecraft can fly people on its next journey.
(Participated in Joy Roulette reports; edited by Jimmy Farid)
