NASA Astronauti Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams poses inside the opening that connects Boeing Starline with an international space station on
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Two American astronauts who were in International space station Nine months after their defective Boeing Starlininer capsule returned Without them they finally move home.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams left the country in June on a test flight, which was originally due to take about nine days.
But their stay was extended after thrusters On the Boein’s Starliner capsule “Calypso” perished During the landing, raising concerns about the ship’s abilities to carry them home. The agency eventually sent an empty capsule after being attributed to the space station for about three months, saying that he wanted to “further understand the fundamental causes of” the problem of the spacecraft.
Nasa also announced that Wilmore and Williams, who both veterans of astronauts and retired Navy pilots will return to a Spacex Dragon Space Leader instead. As a result, the agency adjusted the rotation of the astronaut, removing two people from the SpaceX mission of Crew-9-Koja returns to Earth this week-she would make room for Wilmore and Williams.
That capsule that wore two people on the crew-9 came to ISS back in September. The crews turn to ISS, which means that each astronaut group works until the next one arrives at the space station, when the festive “handover” occurs.
Spacex’s Falcon 9 rocket rises, carrying NASA’s astronauts Crew-10 to the International Space Station at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, March 14, 2025.
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Nasa was originally planned Spacex’s Crew-10 missions -What were they should have arrived before Crew-9 members could return to February, but it delayed in about a month.
A rocket carrying four new crew members launched on Friday night and his capsule muffled At the space station at 29 hours later.
Wilmore, Williams, Nasa Astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonut Aleksandr Gorbunov is ready to burst on Tuesday night, around 7pm after closing the Spacex capsule, according to NASA estimated schedule.
The Starlininer Crew flight test was supposed to check the final Boeing box and deliver the key assets for NASA. The agency hoped to fulfill its dream of having two competitive companies – Boeing and Elon muskSpacex – Flying of alternating missions on ISS.
Instead, it is unclear that Boeing’s space plans for crews are. The company has lost more of $ 2 billion On his space spacecraft Starliner.
This picture taken from a video posted by NASA shows on the left, Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague and Suni Williams who speak during a press conference Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
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Wilmore and Williams’s journey became entangled in politics to one president Donald Trump took over the office. Trump and Musk, who became a close advisor to the president, called faster starting a crew-10 and said without evidence that the two astronauts were “stranded” at the space station and that the Bidel administration kept them up for political reasons. Nasa had deferred The December crew in December to allow more time to process the new Dragon capsule, but decided to use a multi-to-use capsule to reduce the waiting time.
Nasa -‘s plans for the return of two astronauts have remained consistent since the agency announced them in August.
During their extended stay, Wilmore and Williams became part of a normal rotation, conducting scientific experiments and routine maintenance as any other astronaut on rotation on ISS. Williams also led universe.
Williams repeatedly said the couple did not feel “abandoned” on ISS, but that she was looking forward to returning home to see her family and their two dogs.
“For them, it’s a cervix, probably a little more than us,” she told reporters earlier this month.
