After more than nine months of riding at the international space station, a pair of astronauts eventually prepared to depart to Earth in early Tuesday, to end a long mission that has attracted global attention.
Buch Wilmore and Sun. Williams flew into the Orbital Lab in June last year, which Boeing’s Starelineer was considered a day -long roundtrip to test on their first crew flight.
But the spacecraft developed the problems of propulsion and was disqualified to blow them up rather than returning empty without more major problems.
East-Navi pilots Wilmor and Williams, respectively 62 and 59, were re-assigned to the NASA-Spacex Crew-9 mission, which looked at a dragon spacecraft in the ISS last September with a team of two, instead of normal four, instead of normal four, instead of normal four.
Then, in the beginning of Sunday, a relief team called Crew -10, docked with the station, their arrival met with a broad smile and a neck as they floated through the hatch.
The arrival of Crew -10 cleared the way for Wilmor and Williams to depart with Americans Nick Heg and Russian Cosmonott Alexandra Gorbunov.
After a large neck with the remaining crew at the ISS, the quartet entered the capsule and closed its hatch at 11:05 pm (0305 ​​GMT Tuesday).
After a series of final checks, the craft is scheduled to underrock at 1:05 pm (0505 GMT).
If all go away easily, the Dragon Craft will deploy its parachute from the coast of Florida for an ocean splashes, where a recovery vessel will regain the crew.
‘Incredible flexibility’
The migration standard of Wilmore and Williams overtakes the six-month ISS rotation, but is only sixth in the US record for the single-mission period.
Frank Rubio topped the 2023 in 371 days, while the world records live with Russian Cosmonott Valery Polykov, who spent 437 days in a row at MIR station.
According to Rihanna Bokhari of the Center for Space Medicine at Bayler College, it creates “equal to the course” in terms of health risks.
The challenges such as muscle and bone loss, fluid change, and reading for gravity are well understood and managed well.
Bokhari told AFP, “People like Sun. Williams are actually known for their interest in exercise, and so I believe she exercises beyond her normal recipe.”
Nevertheless, the unexpected nature of their extended migration – away from their families and without adequate pack supply – has drawn public interest and sympathy.
“If you came to know that you had gone to work today and were going to get caught in your office for the next nine months, then you could be an attack of a terror,” Joseph Kieel, a psychologist at Embri-Ridel Aeronautical University, told AFP.
“These individuals have shown incredible flexibility.”
Trump weighs
His unexpected tenure also became a political electric rod, with President Donald Trump and his close advisor, Elon Musk – who leads Spacex – repeatedly former President Joe Biden left astronauts and refused the first rescue plan.
Trump posted by Trump on Monday.
Such allegations have inspired an outrage in the space community, especially Musk not given any feature and NASA’s plan for the return of astronauts has been unchanged since his crew -9 revaluation.
Trump has also attracted attention to his bizarre comments, referring to Williams, a former naval captain, “The Woman with the Wild Hair” and the personal dynamic between the two.
During the recent White House press conference, he said, “They have been left there -I hope they like each other, perhaps they love each other, I don’t know.”
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