NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore said the support they received from the public is "humbling" following their return to Earth on March 18. Wilmore stressed during an interview with The Associated Press that he wants "to share some things that we have not been able to say face to face" with Boeing. "It's not for pointing fingers," Wilmore added, "it's just to make the path clearer going forward about what we feel is required to make this overall program a success." "We have input and we want to hear their input and really together make this a successful program," noted Suni Williams. SpaceX recently ferried the astronauts home after more than nine months at the International Space Station, filling in for Boeing that returned to Earth without them last year. Williams and Wilmore ended up spending 286 days in space — 278 days more than planned when they blasted off on Boeing’s first astronaut flight on June 5. The test pilots had to intervene in order for the Starliner capsule to reach the space station, as thrusters failed and helium leaked. Their space station stay kept getting extended as engineers debated how to proceed. NASA finally judged Starliner too dangerous to bring Wilmore and Williams back and transferred them to SpaceX. But the launch of their replacements got stalled, stretching their mission beyond nine months. NASA said engineers still do not understand why Starliner’s thrusters malfunctioned; more tests are planned through the summer.