Indeed, Wilmore explained that his experience has taught him that despite the mission being originally set for just a few days, there’s ultimately no “given” when it comes a world beyond Earth.

“We don’t know what’s going to happen,” he continued. “We might not be back in eight days or whatever the plan was. Focus on that, focus on the mission. Certainly, [we] deal with the personal side of it, but I can’t let that interfere with what I’m called to do at the moment.”

Williams and Wilmore’s sit-down comes nearly two weeks after the pair, who initially traveled to the orbiting International Space Station on a Boeing Starliner capsule in June, finally returned home after their extended stay. And though some, including President Donald Trump, has said they were “abandoned” during that time, they don’t necessarily see it that way.

“‘They’ failed you. Who? Who’s ‘they’?” Wilmore told Fox News. “There are many questions that, as the commander of CFT, I didn’t ask, so I’m culpable… I’ll admit that to the nation. There’s things that I did not ask that I should have asked. I didn’t know at the time that I needed to ask them, but, in hindsight some of the signals were there. Is Boeing to blame? Are they culpable? Sure. Is NASA to blame? Are they culpable? Sure. Everybody has a piece in this…There were some shortcomings in tests and shortcomings in preparations that we did not foresee.”

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