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Starliner commander Butch Wilmore and pilot Sunita Williams said they learnt a lot during their overstay at the International Space Station and are confident of coming back safely to Earth..
Sunita Williams said it was a test flight and they were expecting some finding which could be used to improve the next flight..
"We've been through a lot of simulations...and I think where we are right nowI feel confident that if we had to, if there was a problem with the International Space Station, we could get in our spacecraft, we could undock, talk to our team and figure out the best way to come home," Williams added...
We took over manual controls for over an hour...the teams on the ground did troubleshooting and we got a couple of jets back, and from that point on, you can tell that the thrust was degraded -- at the time we did not know why...but it was still impressive," Wilmore said.. 'It was a test flight, were expecting to find some things'..
"One of them was practicing for safe haven, to make sure that we have all the emergency equipment hat laid out and we need to have to get into or spacecraft and use it as a safe haven in case something happens to the space station," she said..
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