SpaceX Rocket Launches both Butch and Suni Return Preparation

SpaceX launched a rocket that transported a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the plan to bring Butch Wilmora and Sani Williams.

The couple had to be in the ISS only eight days, but from the technical problems with the experimental spacecraft they received, they were there for more than nine months.

Ottomonauts must start their way back to the ground two days after the arrival of the new crew. Steve Stech, head of the NASA commercial crew program, said he was delighted with perspective.

“Butch and Sunny did a great job and we are glad to return them,” he said.

The astronauts, together with their ISS companions, Nick Hig and Roskosmos of Cosmanut Alexander Gorbunov, will be released by four astronauts, from Russia, Japan and two from the USA.

There will be a two -day transmission, after which the old crew must start its way back to the ground. But there may be a slight further delay, as they expect if the conditions on the ground will be correct for a safe re -entry into the return capsule, Dana Weiggel reports, the ISS program.

“The weather should always cooperate, so we will need this time if it does not contribute,” she told reporters.

Ms Weigel explained that last week the astronauts began to prepare for the transmission.

“The battle called the ceremonial bell when Sunny handed over to the team of Kosmonovka Alexei Ovchin,” she said.

The astronauts invariably said they were glad to be aboard the space station, and Sunny Williams called it a “happy place”. But Dr. Simeon Barber from Open University told BBC News that it would probably be a personal cost.

“If you are sent on a working trip, which is supposed to last a week, you do not expect it to take the best part of the year,” he said.

“This extended stay in space will thwart family life, everything will happen home, so there will be a period of shocks.”

Butch and Sunny arrived at the ISS in early June 2024 to check an experimental spacecraft called Starliner, which was built by the Boeing Aerospace firm, opponent SpaceX.

The mission was postponed for several years because of the technical problems in the development of spacecraft, and there were problems while launching and joining the ISS. This included problems with some starliner traction, which would be required to slow the spacecraft for re -entry into the atmosphere of the earth and the leak of helium gas in motion.

NASA has decided that even a small risk of returning Butch and Suni on Starliner would not be required if they had the opportunity to return them to the Dragon SpaceX capsule. NASA decided that the best option was to do so during the planned crew rotation, although this would mean keeping the astronauts at the space station for several months.

Boeing consistently claimed that it would be safe to return the booth and Sunny to Starliner, and were dissatisfied with the decision to use the competitor capsule that would be “embarrassing” for Boeing, Dr. Barber reports.

“It’s not good to seek Boeing to see how the astronauts they took into space are returning to the competitor’s crafts.”

Both President Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Butch and Sunny could be brought home earlier, most recently in A, Joint interview with Fox News in February.

President Trump states: “They remain in space.”

When the interviewer, Sean Khaniti, tells in detail, saying, “They had to be there for eight days. They are almost 300,” Mr. Trump replies in one word: “Biden.” Mr. Musk continues to say: “They remained there for political reasons.”

Steve Steve’s assertion was denied NASA.

“We looked at the wide range of options and worked hand in hand with SpaceX to see what was best done, and when we laid out all that is best to have the one we start,” he said.

This decision was supported by Dr. Libby Jackson, who is the head of the London Space Museum and worked at the ISS European Control Center.

“Water welfare butch and Sunny would always be at the forefront of all minds, because decisions were made how best to fight the circumstances they were presented,” she said.

“NASA made these decisions based on good technical reasons, for software reasons, and found the right decision that retained BUTCH and Suni safe.

“I am very looking forward to their return to the ground, safely and sound, as well as the rest of the crews.”