After 9 Months in Space, Stranded NASA Astronauts Return Home

Suni Williams and Buch Wilmore, US Novachers have been trapped for nine months International space stationFinally on Tuesday, March 18 it made home they returned to Earth with two members of the SpaceX Cruo -9 mission-NASA Nick Heg and Russian astronaut Alexander Gorbunov Rosaksmos – Abeard Of SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom spacecraft.

Four crew successfully spread to the coast of Florida: 5: 5 to ADT. The teams on the SpaceX Recovery Craft did the Dragon Freedom Board and helped the crew. Innovators were then taken to NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston to reunite with their families.

Sunita Lynn “Sunny” Williams, 59, and Barry Eugene “Buch” Wilmore, 62, Lift on June 2024On the Mission of the Starliner’s test, a Boeing spacecraft designed to transport crew to other destinations and other destinations in the ISS and lower-earth orbit. The innovators did not plan to spend more than two weeks in space, however Technical problem That plan failed with the Starliner.

As it approached the space station, some of the starliner’s thruster stopped working. Although the Boeing spacecraft was able to dock at ISS, NASA liked and chose not to take any risk with her return Return the Starliner to the Earth Without the crew on the board. The spacecraft landed safely in September.

Although Williams and Wilmore’s extended accommodation in space were unplanned, they trained that they could stay in ISS for several months. Both also have extensive experiences in space operations, including previous locations in ISS.

In order to return home to astronaut, NASA decided Only two innovators are sent instead of four on the next SpaceX mission. Williams and Wilmore SpaceX used to return to Earth in two vacant seats. After some delay, that mission-croo-9, Heg and Gorbunov were published on the board-September 28, 2024, bound for ISS.

However, it did not identify the end of the Space Station in Williams and Wilmore. It was still necessary to wait for the next mission to arrive at ISS to leave the space station with enough staff to manage it. So even after Crew-9 arrived, Williams and Wilmore had to wait for the arrival of the Crew-10 — which didn’t happen until March 14-to be free to return to the Earth.

The innovators who were trapped for this inconvenience were ready, their status became a political issue within the administration of US presidents Joe Biden And Donald TrumpThe Elon muskSpaceX owner and a top Trump administration’s top figure, accusing the biden administration leaving the innovators at ISS. President Trump within a short period of inauguration The musk asked To return the trapped innovators as soon as possible.

“Promise, Promise: President Trump has promised to rescue the innovators trapped in space for nine months. Today they are safely spread to the United States Gulf, thanks
@Elnomsk, @Ssex, and @NASA! “Official White House Account X posts After Tuesday Splashdown.

“We were thrilled with the house of Sunny, Boch, Nick and Alexander after conducting their month -long missions after conducting Vital Science, technology demonstrations and maintenance at the International Space Station,” said Janet Petro, NASA’s acting Degenist Petro. In a statementThe “According to President Trump’s instructions, NASA and SpaceX worked with diligent to pull the schedule a month ago. These international crew and our teams adopted an update of the Trump administration to bring our crew homes to bring our crew homes and the challenge of mission plan.”

According to NASA, Williams and Wilmore traveled 5 million kilometers during their mission, spent 206 days in space and completed 1,7676 orbit around the earth.

This story was originally attended Wired in Spanish And have been translated from Spanish.