Aground Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally have a return date to return to earth, and this is just a few weeks earlier than previously expected.
NASA announced Tuesday (February 11) that the two astronauts who entered the International Space Station (ISS) at the Starliner Boeing spacecraft in June last yr will return home to the Smok Spacex capsule, which can leave the land with the ISS-10 ON crew. Wednesday, March 12. After just a few days of the period of handing over Williams and Wilmore, he’ll leave the ISS with the rest of the crew-9 mission, after spending about 250 consecutive days in orbit.
At first, Williams and Wilmore were to spend about every week in space, but problems with drive and helium systems on their Boeing Starliner led NASA to return the capsule to Earth after three months of problem solving, they might not solve problems. Capsule ended safely by landing in Nowy Mexico on September 7, 2024. However, the Wargdog report published by Aviation safety advisory panel He stated that latest rinsing problems appeared during the descent. In October, Wall Street Journal announced that Boeing is at an early stage of consideration sales of spaceincluding Starliner.
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As for orphaned steam, they took the most time in orbit: Williams recently broke the record for Most of the inconsistent cosmic hours by the astronaut.
Long -awaited return home
In December 2024, NASA announced that Williams and Wilmore would come back newly designed Spacex dragon capsule At the earliest at the end of March 2025, but now astronauts and the rest of the crew-9 will return home on a previously Summer Dragon capsule, endurance. This will allow crew-9 and crew-10 to get replaced before, while SpaceX continues to finalize the interior and the final integration of the latest dragon capsule, in keeping with NASA.
Together with Wiliem and Williams, Astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will leave ISS in March. They might be replaced by Astronauts NASA Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, the Japanese Agency Agrona Astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. The exact day of return might be determined by weather conditions near Florida, where the strength will disintegrate.
