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Ottamonauts NASA Butch Wilmore, left, and Sunny Williams posed inside Luke, which connects Starlin Boeing to the International Space Station
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Two American astronauts who were in International Space Station In nine months after their malfunction Boiling The stars’ capsule returned Without them, they finally go home.
Nasa Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams left the land in June during a test flight, which was originally intended to hold out about nine days.
But their stay was extended after thrust On the Boeing Starliner capsule “Calypso” failure During the docking, he is concerned about the ability of the ship to carry them home. The agency eventually sent the capsule back after it was combed for about three months at the space station, saying that he wanted to “further understand the root causes” of the problems of the spacecraft.
NASA has also announced that Wilmore and Williams, who are veterans astronauts and the Navy’s retired pilot will return to SpaceX Dragon Craft Instead. As a result, the agency corrected the rotation of the astronauts, removing two people from the SpaceX-9 Mission, which returns to the ground this week-Kab to make space for Wilmar and Williams.
This capsule, which transported two people on the crew-9, arrived in the ISS back in September. The crews rotate on the ISS, which means that each group of astronauts works until the next, comes to the space station when the “Gear” is ritual.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 missile rises, transporting Crew-10 NASA astronauts to the Kennedy Space Center in Kepe Channeur, Florida, USA, March 14, 2025.
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NASA originally planned Mission crew-10 SPACEX -What had to arrive before the crew-9 members could go back-to launch in February, but he was detained for about a month.
A rocket that bears four new crew members launch Friday night and her capsule dock At the space station approximately 29 hours.
Wilmore, Williams, Cosmonaut Nasa Nasa Hig and Roskosmos of Cosmanut Alexander Garbunov plan to push out on Tuesday night, approximately 19 hours after the closure of Luke on the SpaceX capsule, NASA estimates NASA estimates schedule.
Starliner’s crew was to check the final box on Boeing and deliver a key asset for NASA. Agency hoped to fulfill their dream of having two competing companies – Boeing and Elon Musk‘s SpaceX – Flight of Verification missions to the ISS.
Instead, it is unclear what future Boeing space plans are. The company has lost over 2 billion dollars On its spacecraft Starliner.
This image, made on the NASA, left, Butch Wilmore, Nick Hig and Sunny Williams, which compete during a press conference on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
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Wilmar and Williams’s journey touched on politics once president Donald Trump He went to office. Trump and Musk, who became a close presidential advisor, called for a faster launch of the crew-10 and said without evidence that both astronauts were “deputies” at the space station and that Biden’s administration kept them there for political reasons. U nasa was detained Running crew-10 in December to allow more time to process a new Dragon capsule, but decided to use a capsule for multiple use to cut waiting time.
NASA’s plans on the return of the two astronauts remained consistent since the agency announced them in August.
During their extended stay, Wilmore and Williams became part of the usual rotation, conducting scientific experiments and ordinary service, as well as any other ISS astronaut. Williams also spent Specwalk.
Williams repeatedly said that the couple did not feel “abandoned” in the ISS, but what awaits return home to see his family and two dogs.
“It was a little more for them, probably a little more than for us,” she told reporters earlier this month.
