After 286 days in space, NASA astronauts return to the ground with a splash
NASAS Astronauts Wilmore and Suni Williams were “stuck” in International Space Station, after 6 June 2024, after Boeing’s Starliner, the vehicle reached there in many hardware problems
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally back on the ground
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NASA astronauts Wilmore and Suni Williams splash down the coast of Tallahassee, FLA., 17:57, EDT, accidentally marked the end of a long stay in space. The couple returns home to 286 days in space, an astronomical increase in the early eight days planned for their mission.
“And-Splashdown! Crew-9, back to the ground,” Sandra Jones encouraged, at the NASA Johnson Space Center, A Direct broadcasting Spashdown.
Wilmore and Williams rose to the International Space Station (ISS) has been a tough trip: Boeing’s Starliner continued to be the space ships Fucked with Hardware Glitches He had already delayed it twice. Also last year June 5, when Starliner finally launched, Operators noticed a small helium escape in its propulsion system. The escape was not too severe to launch, but additional leaks developed on flights to the ISS during astronauts. Although Starliner managed to bring astronauts safely to his destination, his reaction control system Thrusters failed.
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Monitoring diagnoses were able to deal with some damage, but it was revealed that there would be longer than expected Wilmore and Williams. NASA officials despite the secure of the Astronauts issues, the following ads were increasingly more and more ecibocral ads on the mission. Finally, on August 24, 2024, Starliner’s Earth’s Bill Nelson’s departure and then the Administrator of the NASA, made an ad Press conference: “NASA has decided that Butch and Suni will return Crew-9 Next February, “he said,” and that Starliner will return without deflection. “
According to the conference, astronauts would return to SpaceX dragon spaceships, already completed a large number of crews with NASA Commercial crew program (CCP). Two weeks later, September 7, 2024, returned to the Earliner Earth, but without significant issues in its landing procedures. The arrival of Starlin continued a ceremonically gentle conference, however, the mission operators kept, for safety, the best Wilmore and Williams was not a flight of Starliner’s return.
“I think it’s hard to look retrospective,” Steve Stich said, after CCP’s NASA director, after confirming that, they were safely landed in Starlinerutas. “You know, we decided to make the flight we knew at the time, what we knew at the time and based on our knowledge …. I think we did not have a good decision to have Butch and Suni.”
The other three weeks passed, and the NASA ASTRONAUT NICK HAGUE and the Russian Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov Establish Wilmore and Williams to match. Four Crew-9, Ninth SpaceX transport mission would become via CCP. From the beginning, on the side of Hague and Gorbunov’s space stays, Crew-10, Crew-9 were descendants. If all went well, NASA reported in February 2025, Crew-9 eventually returned to the ground in mid-March. Then Crow-10 was almost planned, after having problems with a hydraulic lift, he booted the launch day from March 12 to March 14.
“Space trip is not safe,” he says Ella AtkinsHead of the Virginia Tech Aerospace Department. “It’s more common for being anomalies (so), then the question is: How do you deal with them?” It can be the last round of events, Boeing can be fault, but that is the fall of the vision, which is the risk of any manned mission, especially those who are performed SpaceX and Boeing For NASA CCP. “Well, nothing wrong do it,” says Atkins. “Starlin had some anomalies, and ultimately (Boeing and Nasa) decided that the Astronauts was a more conservative approach to bringing the Starliner’s back.”
The involvement of the private industry has sparked the involvement in the spacecraft as late in the public sphere. Since the creation of NASA, however, it has always been attended by the private aeronautics corporations, ATKins explained. It will not be said that Wilmore and Williams’s extended stay in space will not happen again. In this sense, NASA works as a government agency, specially built in these missions as their main investors, as well as providing supervisory supervision in the spectrum decade. Again was the product Close collaboration with the private sector.
Wilmore and Williams themselves always seemed to be in high spirits, regularly from Q & A sessions on isss. Williams was particularly cheerful, Celebration joking about cake This month before the authority ceremonies, when he overtaken the ISS control when Roscosmos Cosmonaut was passed to Alexey Ovchinin.
“It’s just ridiculously good luck and all the people who wanted to be good luck and especially …. But I understand what people are doing a little more about science and space and what they are doing at international space station,” Williams said Multimedia session last weekAnd he assured them that the audience himself and Wilmore were well. “We had the opportunity to stay here more, science and space rides and other things. It’s a great place to live and work…. We are a little more than originally planned. “
“The role of space station, scientific exploration, is something we believe,” said Hagas Predeparture Conference This month has been done earlier in ISS. “And these risks allow us to perform tasks, you know the risk of putting on a rocket and the risk of launching space … and the risk of developing a new spaceship to the space station”.
“All the people in the family and on the ground are a roller coaster for them, probably a little more than us,” Williams said in the same conference. “You know, here we are; we have a role. We are doing what we do every day.”
