Williams and astronaut Butch Wilmore recently returned to Earth after a much longer-than-planned trip to space. The two were stuck on the International Space Station ( ISS) for nearly 300 days, despite the original plan for a short trip. The mission became the sixth longest in NASA's history.

For the first time since spending nine months in space, astronaut Sunita Williams, a native of Needham, Massachusetts, is speaking publicly about her experience. Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore gave a press conference at Johnson Space Center in Houston Monday.

In their first news conference since coming home, the pair said they were taken aback by all the interest and insisted they were only doing their job and putting the mission ahead of themselves and even their families.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams indicated they’d be willing to travel on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft again in the future. They both clocked 286 days in space.