The NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sununi Williams left the international space station on Tuesday morning on Tuesday morning in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited journey back to Earth, nine months after their faulty Boeing Starliner trade had built up about one-week test mission.
Wilmore and Williams, two experienced NASA astronauts and retired US navy test pilots, strapped in their spaceship of the crew Dragon together with two other astronauts and were docked from the surrounding laboratory at 1:05 a.m., a 17-hour trip to earth.
The four-person crew, which is officially part of NASA’s crew-9 astronaut rotation mission, is scheduled to create a splash in front of Florida’s coast later on Tuesday at 5:57 p.m.
Wilmore and Williams’ Homecoming Caps An end to an unusual, appropriate mission full of uncertainties and technical problems, which have transformed a rare case of NASAS contingency planning and failure of Boeing’s starliner spaceship in a global and political spectacle.
The astronauts, who have been at the international space station for nine months, are now preparing to return to Earth after a SpaceX capsule wore a new crew to successfully attract them on Sunday.
In June, the Astronaut couple brought the first crew into space for an eight-day test mission. However, the problems with the drive system of Starliner led to delays when they returned home, which culminated in a NASA decision last year so that they can withdraw a SpaceX trade as part of the agency this year.
The mission attracted the attention of US President Donald Trump, who called for a faster return from Wilmore and Williams after taking office in January and claimed without evidence that former President Joe Biden “abandoned” it on the ISS for political reasons.
The CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, a close consultant of Trump, repeated his call for an earlier return. SpaceX ‘Crew Dragon is the only spaceship in the United States of the US orbital class.
For several days, the astronauts will fly health controls in their crew quarters in the Johnson Space Center of the Space Agency in Houston before NASA flight surgeons agree that they can go home to their families.
For months in space, life can affect the human body in a variety of ways, from muscle atrophy to a possible visual impairment.
When injecting, Wilmore and Williams will have registered 286 days in space as the average six-month mission length, but far ahead of the record holder Frank Rubio. His continuous 371 days in space, which ended in 2023, was the unexpected result of a coolant treck on a Russian spaceship.
Williams, who followed her third room flight, has 608 cumulative days in space, the second most common for every US Astronaut after Peggy Whitsons 675 days. The Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko put the world record on 878 cumulative days last year.
According to NASA, Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams may not be able to return from space until 2025 after a number of problems on the Boeing Starliner capsule were found. Andrew Chang explains why it is becoming more and more complicated to bring her home.
Wilmore and Williams were able to grow up in the routine athletic rotation plan of NASA and were able to begin their return to earth until their substitute team arrived in order to maintain appropriate US personnel quantities according to NASA.
Her replacement came on Friday evening.
“We are ready to stay for a long time, even though we plan to stay short,” Wilmore told reporters from space at the beginning of this month and added that he did not believe that NASA’s decision to keep it until the arrival of crew-10 in the ISS was affected.
“That is what’s your nation’s human spatial flight program all about,” he said, “plan for unknown, unexpected eventualities. And we did that.”
Wilmore and Williams have carried out routine maintenance of the routine with the other five astronauts of the station. Williams had carried out two six -hour space for maintenance outside the ISS, including one with Wilmore.
The ISS, about 409 kilometers in height, is a research laboratory in a soccer field size that has been housed by international astronaut crews for almost 25 years-an important platform for science diplomacy, which is mainly managed by the USA and Russia.
At the beginning of this month, Williams told reporters that she was looking forward to returning home to see her two dogs and family.
“It was a roller coaster for her, probably a little more than for us,” she said.
