In the video on YouTube, published by NASA, children sit on the neat rows in the gymnasium in the elementary school Sunita L. Williams in Nidham, Massachusetts. You can see how they wave with their little hands on the camera, which makes the image about 250 miles above the ground to the international space station.
They talked in December with nothing more than the Sunite Williams, the namesake of the school and the astronaut living at the space station.
She had to be at home. A number of technical failures extended an eight -day mission until nine months, which led to the fact that some news organizations and politicians brought up tension and guilt.
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The narrative grew that two astronauts were “stuck” in space. But their training and character can tell the story of adaptability and strength.
But the live broadcast of the Mr. Williams with these young students gave an idea of the other side of the saga.
Suspended in microgravity, Mr. Williams bats around the Wildcat stuffed, talisman of the school. She is asked how astronauts celebrate their birthdays at the space station.
“Of course, we still have to work sometimes, but the team on board is trying to do it quite special, and we became pretty good in making cakes here,” she says. They use glaze pudding and cinnamon cinnamon buns.
Her birthday, which came in September, coincided with international conversations as a pirate day, she adds.
An astronaut floating from the release of the convincing “Arggghh”.
Astronauts admit that it was difficult to unexpectedly far from the family for so long. But their experience does not correspond to the headlines, saying that M -Wilms and Butch Wilmore were “stuck”, or President Donald Trump said on social networks that the astronauts were “abandoned in space”.
Now the mission is preparing to return them, Perhaps this week laterField
Their journey for those who followed him carefully talks less about the NASA mission, went wrong, but more about the nature of stability.
Isolation and conclusion
According to Lawrence, a public health professor at the University of California at the University of California at the University of California at the University of California at the University of California at the University of California at the University of California at the University of California. And changes in the plan, such as a long stay for Mr. Williams and Mr. Wilmore, can complicate these problems, he says.
When several people are stuck with each other, trivial behavior – for example, how someone chews his food or performs work – can become a source of irritation. Astronauts also lack confidentiality. They are constantly surrounding colleagues, crew member mission, controlled by the control of missions and talking with journalists, classrooms and researchers.
At the same time, although they can speak with their family during the day, they are physically isolated from those whom they love the most.
“If there is something unplanned or unexpected, for example, an emergency or the death of a loved one, that they cannot be physically there, may be a source of stress,” says Dr. Palinkas.
The NASA behavior unit in behavioral health and performance works to reduce stress. In 2004, NASA employees organized a video call for an astronaut to see their newborn child. And in 2003 they helped the wedding to continue, as planned, while the future husband was in space. Wedding pictures show that his wife holds a cardboard cut in full size.
According to IDO Mizrahi, director of the 2023 documentary “Space: The Longest Farewell,” also helps to choose stable astronauts.
Mizrahi says that Al Holland, who has been a NASA psychologist for decades, was looking for people with “this innate desire to explore, and this helps to reassure itching, pain and other things that can be very, very difficult to drag out for other people.”
Astronauts for the ISS should also be able to withstand failures, he says. “Suddenly, as if you had failed most of the time. It's Complicated. It is difficult to go to the bathroom. It’s hard to be far from your daughter. ”
“There was a certain grief in being at home”
The most difficult aspect of space flight for some astronauts can actually return to Earth, not to remain on the mission longer than expected.
Former astronaut Cadie Coleman, author of the book “Exchange of space: the leadership of the astronaut on the mission, surprise and amending”, is not worried that Mr. Williams and Mr. Wilmore “got stuck” or need “salvation”. She knows them.
In fact, she says that “they did not have such an opportunity” for a long stay in space – and then it was so great that they did it. ”
According to her, over the past few years, their mission was to transport the transfer to the space station and vice versa, spending only eight or so, without the opportunity to live there and conduct experiments. And the cosmos, adds Mr. Coleman, is the “happy place” Miss Williams.
M -Ra Coleman was several times in space and was shown in Space: The Soald Goodbye. Being there, she says: “I felt that everything I did was significant.” When the time came to return, part of her wanted to stay longer.
She admits how nice it was to reunite with her family. But “there was a certain grief in being at home,” she says.
“Astronaut,” says Mr. Mizrahi, “leaves behind an experience that is difficult to express in words, and now he needs to return to normal things, for example, prepare dinner and watch TV.”
Nevertheless, after adaptation to life on Earth, astronauts can be left with prolonged psychological stability, says Dr. Palinkas. Being in space, they had to rely on others, remain flexible, and the weather is extreme isolation and conclusion.
He says that many are returning with the conviction that “if I can cope with this, I can cope with anything.”
“Suni is a lively example of dreams realized”
In primary school in Nidham, the narrative is just the opposite of what dominated in the news cycle.
“This is unexpected, but she is trained for this, and she has provisions at the space station, and she does something, what she likes,” says Director of Kian Brunns, she and other adults tell the children.
In 2017, the school was named in honor of Mr. Williams, which graduated from the district of public schools in 1983. M -Wilms plans to visit in the near future. Miss Brunns calls Mr. Williams “a natural teacher”. When she came in the past, she appears in various classrooms, warmly attracting students of all ages.
“Suni is a living example of dreams realized,” says Branson. “When you are a child, you have these grandiose dreams of work and what you can do in this life.”
M -Branson says that M -Wilhams shows the children that they can also do something “impressive”.
