NASA astronauts Sony Williams and Boot Wilmor They finally return home.
The astronauts, who planned to visit the International Space Station left for only one week but they were more than nine months, early on Tuesday.
Their journey will return to Earth to close the extraordinary chapter and closely watch the history of space. William and Wilmmore became a home names after being launched on the first test trip from the Starlener capsule in Boeing in June. But they faced problems with the car defender while laying the space station, ultimately prompted NASA to return Starliner to the ground without anyone on board.
This forced Williams and Wilmmore to stay in orbit for a long longer period than the scheme. But in the end, they left the space station on Tuesday at 1:05 am Each time on the SPACEX Dragon capsule.
Space pioneers should go off the coast of Florida at 5:57 pm Each time.
Besides, NASA astronaut Nick The Hague and Russian astronauts Alexander Gorbonov will be almost six months in the space station.
The special time of the group’s return trip was determined on Tuesday “based on favorable conditions predicted on Tuesday evening, March 18th,” NASA, NASA He said in a statement. (The agency was on Wednesday for the trip.)
The Spacex vehicle, which will share the four spaces, arrived at the space station in September, which is carrying the Hague and Jorbonov, along with two empty seats to accommodate their colleagues. William and Wilmmore then hold so that Hague and Gorbunov can complete their mission.
Which now ends with a new group of astronauts takes over. On Sunday, Williams, Wilmmore, Hag and Jourbunov welcomed the incoming crew – NASA AN MacLean, Nicole Aires, Japanese astronaut Takoya Unishi, and Russian astronaut Kirill Peskov – in fiery areas.
In this sense, despite the interest, their unusual circumstances obtained “Williams and Wilwmore” were not “stranded” in space. Both are stabbed again and again in this description, while maintaining that they enjoyed their time to live and work in the low -Earth orbit.
“Every day is interesting because we are in space and it is very fun,” Williams told a press conference earlier this month.
However, their long stays unexpectedly in orbit became a political discussion point for the CEO of Spacex Elusk and President Donald Trump. Both made baseless allegations that the Biden administration was returning to Earth for political reasons.
“This started when I asked Elon Musk to climb and get the displaced astronauts, because the Biden administration was unable to do this,” Trump wrote on Monday to a position on social truth. “They forgot the shame of astronauts, because they considered it a very embarrassing event for them.”
However, NASA’s plan to use a SPACEX for the return trip has been consistent since its announcement August, during the Biden Administration.
After Musk made a similar claim to Trump In a joint interview on Fox News last month, a group of current and retired astronauts erupted on X. European astronaut Andreas Muginsen described Musk’s comments as a “lie”, and things became ugly after he fired musk back, described Mogncen as “fool” and a replacing term. Retired astronaut Scott Kelly, Mark Kelly and Chris Haddelds also in the online conflict.
In the last news briefing, Williams and Wilwmore carefully renewed politics, as Willmour said they “respect and admire” to the president and “the maximum respect of Mr. Musk.”
But in response to a question about the recent comments made by Musk, indicating that the United States should abandon the International Space Station within two years instead of keeping it operating until 2030 as planned, Williams expressed its dispute.
She said, “I would like to say that we are actually in our prime now.” “I think this is currently not the time to call.”