“At first I was afraid, but the two other guys looked okay, so I tried to look okay too.”

　　Yi smiled and joked her way through a 10­minute news briefing at Star City, the wooded Sovietera cosmonaut training centre on the edge of Moscow. However, Malenchenko and Whitson looked tired and thin after nearly six months in space. Their answers were short and Whitson needed support to balance when she walked.The 29­year­old Yi has become famous in South Korea since the take­off but she brushed this aside and said she has had little contact with friends or family since returning.

　　“In fact, they are the heroes right now，” Yi said, referring to Malenchenko and Whitson. “I'm just a beginner and a little ashamed to say that I am a hero.”

　　She did, though, relate a more light­hearted incident on the ISS.

　　“I sang Fly Me to the Moon” Yi said about the 1950s pop song. “It's my favorite song from university although at that time I didn't know I would be an astronaut.”

　　The capsule's so­called “ballistic” re­entering made the group members face twice the usual pull from the centre of the earth.

　　The flames Yi described may have been caused by friction (摩擦) heating the capsule as it fell through the atmosphere.

　　Whitson told reporters that Saturday's ballistic landing, was irregular but not an emergency.

　　“The Soyuz has been through its history very reliable and there has obviously been some issue in the last couple of descents which went ballistic, but I'm sure the engineers will determine what the problems are and get them fixed，” she said.

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