Astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore “does good things” but has been spending a long nine months of gravity-based time in space, his daughter revealed.
Darrin Wilmore provided an update on his father's condition on Thursday. Two days after SpaceX capsules carrying 62-year-old Wilmore and 59-year-old Sunita Williams landed off the coast of Florida.
“He's doing well,” Darrin responded to a user in Tiktok who asked how his father had adapted to gravity since he returned to Earth.
“It's rough, but he's a trooper.”
One of the most important changes for astronauts is to adjust them to avoid microgravity that allows them to float inside or between spacecraft.
Muscle mass is reduced due to reduced use and lack of stimulation by motor equipment, causing bone loss while astronauts are harboring microgravity.
“Without the Earth's gravity that affects the human body, the amount of bones that carry weight during space flight will decrease by an average of 1% to 1.5% on the moon.” NASA. “Astronauts also lose muscle mass through microgravity faster than Earth.”
SpaceX launched the Crew Dragon 10 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station, carrying NASA astronauts Ann McLain and Nicole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Onishya, and Russian astronaut Kiril Peskov.
The stranded pair went home with American Nick Hague and Russian astronaut Alexander Golbunov, and finished their tour on Crew 9 missions.
After the astronauts returned to Earth, they flew to Houston, Texas for quarantine and medical evaluation.
Darrin said he saw his father on the day he landed.
The 19-year-old posted a series of videos to Tiktok explaining her experiences on Earth as she waited for her father to return home.
In August, a sophomore in college posted her First videoexplains that after the Boeing Star Liner spacecraft was not expected to return to Earth until “late February, early March,” after thruster issues and the helium leak meant to be a 10-day mission.
She said she and her family were close to her father, and Butch's unexpected space stay was difficult for them to grasp.
However, Darrin also revealed that she and her family were in “constant contact” with him while he was stuck in space.
In one of her February videos, Darrin also said that she had “a negligence” that led to her father being stuck on Earth.
“The fact that he's there from time to time isn't that great, that's the case,” she said. “There's a lot of politics. There's a lot of things I'm not free to say in terms of completely unfamiliarity.”
The 19-year-old posted the saga on Wednesday, the final article on “My Father is Stuck in Space” because his father was “already” and “already.”
“I'm so happy, I'm very proud,” Wilmore said in a video recorded several hours before he returned Tuesday.
Darrin said he planned to make his favorite dessert, pecan pie, and made a list of things to do with her dad when he reunited with his family.
She said her dad “will be spending tests, a lot of medical stuff over the next few days, because they are still technically part of human spaceflight experiments, just re-utilized in gravity and routines on Earth.”
After supporting her 36K followers with Tiktok and thanking her for following along with Saga, she said Hollywood should turn her father's story into a film.
“Hollywood, I think a movie is supposed to happen. I think a movie is supposed to happen. If you want to call me, I have an idea,” she said.
“'Apollo 13', that's a great movie. But do you know what will improve? This movie is here. ”
