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Stuck-in-space astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Friday it was hard to watch their Boeing capsule return to Earth without them._ --- Sep 13, 2024 10:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [4 Astronauts Return to Earth After Being Delayed by Boeing’s Capsule Trouble and Hurricane Milton](/video/dhOyuHYR/) ### 4 Astronauts Return to Earth After Being Delayed by Boeing’s Capsule Trouble and Hurricane Milton [Two Astronauts Are Left Behind in Space as Boeing’s Troubled Capsule Returns to Earth Empty](/video/z7oS5NDo/) ### Two Astronauts Are Left Behind in Space as Boeing’s Troubled Capsule Returns to Earth Empty [These Are the Astronauts Who Will Ride the First Commercial Capsules Into Space](/video/xe9n6HWx/) ### These Are the Astronauts Who Will Ride the First Commercial Capsules Into Space --- ## Transcript Quite an evolution over the last three months. We've been involved from the beginning through all the processes of assessing our spacecraft Calypso. And it was trying at times. There was some tough times all the way through. You certainly, as the commander in the PLT of your spacecraft, you don't want to see it go off without you, but that's where we wound up. And through all the process, most of the news we heard, and we would hear things over the newswaves and and the different means that we have to get information up here, that 80% of the time, you'd hear Sonny and Butch, Butcher Sonny, Sonny and Busch, Butcher Sonny. And I just want everybody to know how much we appreciate that. Excited to fly in two different spacecraft. I mean, we're testers. That's what we do. You know, we look at different aircraft, spacecraft, whatever, evaluate it. And that's a pretty unique opportunity. I think, like you know, this was not the very first option. We wanted to take Starliner to the completion and land it back on land at home. But, you know, you have to turn the page and look at the next opportunity and, you know, do good for the agency and the country, and we'll come back with some evaluations of both Spacecraft, and I think we're pretty fortunate for that. Could have gotten to the point, I believe, where we could have returned on Starliner, but we just simply ran out of time because there's other tests that need to be done, and other assessments that need to be done. And had we had a little more time than we could have done it, I sent down my request for a ballot today. As a matter of fact, and they should get it to us in a couple of weeks and absolutely yes. It's a very important role that we all play as citizens is to be included in those elections, and NASA makes it very easy for us to do that. So we're excited about that opportunity. You asked what we miss, right? Of course, You know, the things that we always miss our families. I miss my two dogs. I miss my friends. But you know what? Like Butch said, there are so many people on earth that are sending us messages, and it makes you feel just right at home with everybody when we're able to have those conversations with our friends and family at home. So I know they understand. I know it's tough on them as well as, you know, being away from home, of course. But everybody understands, and everybody's cheering for us to get back. With renin. This is my happy place. I love being up here in space. It's just fun. You know, every day, you do something that's work, quote unquote. You can do it upside down. You can do it sideways. So it adds a little different perspective. And, you know, about staying up here longer, one of the things I was sort of regretting about a short duration flight is I wasn't gonna be able to share it with a lot of people. One of the things I like to do up here is sort of write, like, a little recap of the week and send it down to people so they can see what fun we're having and, you know, what kind of work we're doing up here. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Stranded Astronauts Make First Public Comments Since Boeing Capsule Left Without Them","description":"Stuck-in-space astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Friday it was hard to watch their Boeing capsule return to Earth without them.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/CiTg5dx3/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-09-13T21:29:05.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/CiTg5dx3.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/CiTg5dx3/","duration":"PT2M45S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/CiTg5dx3/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```