Due to the problems that the capsule had presented Boeing and the Hurricane Miltonjust this week a SpaceX capsule carrying the crew was launched in parachute in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida.
The four NASA astronauts Michael Barrat, Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Eppsnext to Alexander Grebenkinthe cosmonaut of Roscosmos, Russia’s state space agency, have been aboard the space station since last March.
The Russian and the three Americans should have returned two months agobut his return was delayed due to certain imperfections presented by the new astronaut capsule Boeing Starliner; Hurricane Milton also interfered with strong winds and intense tides.
How was the ship’s return?
The spaceship separated from the ISS this Wednesday after 5:05 p.m. Eastern time in the United States, and NASA reported that the mission SpaceX Crew-8 It landed successfully today at 7:29, GMT time. During their mission, they traveled almost 160 million kilometers and completed 3760 orbits around the Earth.
After falling into the sea, the recovery equipment They quickly assisted the astronauts during the exit, and later announced that they would take them to the Johnson Space Center from NASA in Houston, Texas.
The Dragon spaceship will return to the SpaceX facilities at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, where his inspection and reconditioning.
What will happen to astronauts stranded in space?
This mission received the relief on September 29 at the ISS, the Crew-9which on this occasion only took two travelers, the NASA astronaut Nick Hague and the Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunovto leave places free for the return of the two astronauts from the Boeing Starliner.
The Crew-9 will be responsible for bringing you back in February 2025 to Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williamsthe two astronauts stranded at the orbital station of Boeing’s first manned mission.
Wilmore and Williams arrived at the ISS in June and they were going to stay for approximately a week, but due to technical problems that they could not resolve, the POT decided that they should remain there until the return of the Dragon to look for them.
Source: Ambito
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