Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams, are stranded in space since June 2024. The US space agency announced that they will return before April, with the crew of relay, the CREW-10.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), announced Wednesday that astronauts stranded in the International Space Station (EEI) since June last year, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williamsthey will return to Earth before expected.
At the beginning of everything, the June 6, 2024the initial mission had an planned stay of just one week, but due to imperfect presented the spacecraft Starliner, Time ended up extinguishing eight months.
The American agency confirmed the modification of the calendar after the decision that the crew of relief, the CREW-10will travel in a reused capsule instead of a new one, which completely accelerates the times planned for launch. In addition, this change facilitates the CREW-9 returnwhich currently integrates astronauts stranded in space.
When will astronauts return to Earth
“The POT and Spacex They are working quickly to back up to the astronauts of the crew-9 of Spacex, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, as soon as possible; While also preparing for the launch of the crew-10 to complete the transfer between expeditions, “the POT in his X account at the end of January.
In the beginning, the launch to look for the Astronauts I was planned for late March either early Aprilbut the advancement of March 12 will allow Wilmore and Williams to return to the Land several days earlier than expected.
The launch of the CREW-10 will be done from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will be commanded by NASA’s astronaut Anne McClainnext to the pilot Nichole AyersJapanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and the Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. The official return will depend on certain climatic conditions and technical issues, typical of ships.
What was the problem of Williams and Wilmore in space
When they started the game in June 2024the two astronauts had no planned that their stay in space was going to take so long. His initial journey was towards the International Space Stationaboard the spacecraft Boeing Starlinerwith the aim of checking the capsule operation. In these first tests, a series of damage were detected that caused their return to continue to take and move.
The mission It ended up transforming into more than eight monthswhich had a series of postponements and great doubts and questions about their possible return. The main failures detected were in the helium leak in it Starliner and problems with 5 of the 28 Propulors of reaction of the ship near the US.
Source: Ambito
