Washington: A big update has been received on the health of Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were stranded in space last year due to Boeing's Starliner capsule. Both these NASA astronauts are recovering rapidly. Both these astronauts are coming out of several weeks of physical therapy to speed up work with the astronauts and various NASA programs. Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams were stranded in space for a long time. Due to this, the conditions of space had a profound effect on their bodies. In such a situation, they were kept under strict medical supervision after returning to Earth.
What Butch Wilmore told
62-year-old Wilmore said in an interview, "Right now, we are coming out of the rehab part of our return." "Gravity is bad for a period, and that period varies for different people, but eventually you recover from problems like neurovestibular balance," he said. Wilmore and Williams departed for the International Space Station on a Boeing Starliner test flight for eight days, but had to stay there for nine months due to a technical problem.
NASA is treating both of them
This long stay caused them to retrain their muscles, sense of balance and other basics of living on Earth, which is a 45-day standard period for astronauts returning from long-term space missions. The pair of astronauts have spent at least two hours a day with astronaut power and recomposition officers within NASA's medical unit, while handling an increased workload with the Boeing Starliner program, NASA's space station unit in Houston and agency researchers.
Sunita Williams told about her health
59-year-old Sunita Williams said in the interview, "It has been a bit of a whirlwind. Because we also have obligations to all the people we have worked with." Williams said that some of her side effects after space flight were slow to heal and she felt tired in the last phase of recovery, as dozens of different muscles were activated again. This made it difficult to get up early in the morning. She said, "Then I wake up at four in the morning, and I think, Aha! I'm back."
Wilmore's back and neck pain
"Wilmore had some problems with his back and neck before going into space. He could not turn his head completely to one side. All this went away in space where there is no stress on your body," he said. When he returned in March, gravity greeted him with the neck pain he had left behind on Earth. "I started getting neck pain while we were floating in the capsule in the ocean, even though we hadn't even been pulled out of the capsule yet," he laughed.
Human body affected
The human body, which has evolved over millions of years in Earth's surface gravity, was not made for space flight. The absence of gravity triggers a number of physiological effects over time, such as muscle atrophy or cardiovascular changes that can cause a chain reaction of other health changes. Being confined in a small space, without the protection of Earth's atmosphere, and high solar radiation in space have other effects.
