Sony Williams and Boot Wilmor – NASA astronauts who have been in space for months than the plan – may return on Earth on Tuesday evening.
This was early in NASA on Friday when an alternative crew of astronauts was launched to the International Space Station.
The two groups of astronauts-new arrivals and hikers usually overlap the station for up to a week, but this time, the agency said it was looking for a return faster than usual, early on Wednesday.
On Sunday night, NASA said it was paying the return date even before Tuesday, to take advantage of good weather forecast along the Gulf coast in Florida, where astronauts would rise. The weather is expected to be less appropriate later in the week.
NASA officials want to maintain it to the supply province, such as food.
“We do not want to lose any good opportunities that we may have in this case,” Dina Contella, NASA’s deputy director of the satellite station, said during a press conference on Friday. “We are trying to extend consumables.”
It is scheduled to explode after 1 am in the morning time on Tuesday.
Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor, along with Nick The Hague from NASA and Alexander Gorbonov from the Russian Space Agency, will be in the spacecraft in Spacex Crew Dragon – which was taken by Mr. The Hague and Mr. Gorbonov to space last September. The journey will take about 17 hours.
The Spacex Crew Dragon team with the alternative crew – Ann MacLean, Nicole Aires from NASA, Takoya Ounishi from the Japanese Space Agency and Kirill Peskov from the Russian Space Agency – reached the International Space Station at 12:04 am on Sunday. After checks to ensure that the seal between the spacecraft and the space station was narrow, opened the hole an hour and a half after the crew of four warm greetings from their colleagues.
For Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor, it was a long journey. The two initially arrived at the International Space Station last June about what was supposed to be a brief test flight for a new spacecraft at Boeing Starlener. Instead, after the capsule malfunctions, NASA officials chose to leave astronauts at the space station and restore empty Starliner.
Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor lived in the space station for a period of nine months, waiting for the new crew members to reduce them from their duties so that the operations can work smoothly. The capsule trip was to be launched in February, but it was late this month.
Nine months is not an unusual long stay in space – many astronauts at the space station live there for several months, some of which have lived there for more than a year. Mrs. Williams and Mr. Willemore used the time to conduct experiments, as many explore what the absence of gravity does for the body.
The husband’s long stay unexpectedly raised the interests of space, amateurs and members of the public alike, fascinated by their fate. Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmour adopted their circumstances, and they regularly broadcast from the station and spoke with pride in stopping them in space.
“This makes you really want to enjoy everything from your time you have here,” said Ms. The Daily last week.