Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore along with his Crew-9 Nick Hague crew, NASA, and Aleksandr Gorbunov. From Roscosmos, they will merit near the coast of Florida at 22.57 if everything goes as planned
After more than nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the two ‘trapped’ astronauts in the Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams space will finally return home in the early hours of Wednesday, ending a long mission that has monopolized worldwide attention.
Wilmore, 62, and Williams, 59, arrived at the Orbital Laboratory in June 2024 in the first manned flight of the Boeing Starliner ship, a mission to try the new vehicle and that only one week was going to last. However, during his trip, several helium leaks and a problem with some of the propellers motivated a test battery that lengthened until August. Finally, NASA decided that the ship would return empty and that the astronauts would join the next mission, the CREW-9, which was reduced from four to two members to leave them space in the return in the Dragon capsule, of the Spacex company.
After several delays, finally the CREW-9 crew formed by Williams, Wilmore, NASA astronaut NASA Hague and his Russian homonym Aleksandr Gorbunov departed from the ISS in the early hours of Tuesday.
If there are no setbacks, the Dragon capsule will deploy its parachutes off the coast of Florida and make a soft amegification, and then receive assistance from a ship that will rescue the crew, something that will happen around 23.00 on Tuesday.
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