The two veterans of space, Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, were the first astronauts To fly aboard two different commercial spaceships during a single mission and returned to Earth by killing together with two of their crew companions. “Suni” and “Butch” had not prefixed to make history at all if not to be the first crew starting with the Boeing Cst-100 Starliner capsule, but after this had shown propulsion problems, NASA had decided to let it land without crew reassigning the spacex crew Dragon capsule the return to complete what a 12-day mission has come to last nine months. So, yesterday, the astronaut of Nasa Nick Hague and the cosmonaut of Roscosmos Aleksandr Gorbunov, left with the Spacex Crew Dragon “Freedom” without two of their crew-9 crew-9 crews that were postponed in September, thus landed with Williams and Wilmore.
THE Four are therefore healthy and safely at 5:57 pm on the east coast of the USA off the coast of Tallahassee, In Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico, now renamed Gulf of America. Once recovered, Hague, Gorbunov, Wilmore and Williams were therefore helped to leave the Dragon and subjected to the first medical checks before being transported by helicopter to NASA airport and from there aboard a Jet Gulf Stream to the Ellingeton Field in Houston, in Texas, where they will remain in the housing of the Johnson Space Center of NASA for several days for several days for several days for several days Before being authorized by doctors to return home. Their departure from the ISS left Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos in orbit, together with the NASA don Pettit, left with the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-26 on 11 September 2024, and which were reached by the members of the SPACEX Crew-10 mission: Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers of NASA, Takuya Onisi della Jaxa (the Japanese agency) and Cosmonauta Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos. “We know that the station is in excellent hands,” said Hague while the distance between the Dragon and the space station increased, “We are excited to see what you can make.” Fourteen hours later, Freedom has released his trunk mounted posteriorly and turned on his Dracoper engines about 12 minutes to start the Deorbit maneuver and the return to the terrestrial atmosphere. In June 2024, when Williams and Wimore flew to the ISS, their Starliner vehicle called Calypso, showed helium losses and problems of overheating the engines.
After carrying out the tests before and after the dock, The engineers of Boeing had considered that the two could land safely on the Starliner, but postponed the decision to the managers of the NASA mission which, on the contrary, decided that the risk was too high. So on 7 September Calypso had returned to Earth without his crew, landing safely at the White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico. Williams and Wilmore had therefore joined the crew of the Expedition 72 of the ISS station, with Williams as a commander, leading hundreds of scientific experiments, maintaining the station systems, witnessing the arrival and departure of eight vehicles invisted and performing three extraveicular activities, or space walks. Suni Williams now has a record: he spent a total of 608 days in space in orbit, the second highest of any US astronaut after Peggy Whitson, who arrived at 675. Wilmore spent 464 days in orbit during his three missions. Hague and Gorbunov traveled 116,764,215 km orbiting around the land 2,736 times for a total of 171 days in space. This is also Hague’s third space flight, for a total time away from the land of 374 days. For Suni and Butch, a long period of rehabilitation is now necessary to limit the effects of the long stay in space on their physique, which is affected by premature aging despite the regularity of the physical exercises carried out on board the ISS during the last nine months.
