Washington, United States:
A pair of US astronauts stuck for more than nine months on the International Space Station will be returned to Earth on Tuesday evening, NASA shelp.
Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are to be carryed home with another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon create, which get tod at the ISS punctual Sunday.
The stranded duo have been on the ISS since June after the Boeing Starliner spacecreate they were testing on its mhelpen crewed voyage suffered propulsion rehires and was deemed inactive to fly them back to Earth.
NASA shelp in a statement on Sunday evening that it had shiftd forward the astronauts’ foreseed ocean splashdown off the Florida coast to approximately 5:57 pm Tuesday (2157 GMT). It was initipartner stardyd for no sooner than Wednesday.
“The refreshd return aim proceeds to permit the space station crew members time to finish handover duties while providing opereasonable flexibility ahead of less likeable weather conditions foreseeed for tardyr in the week,” the space agency shelp.
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will also return on the Dragon capsule, with the journey to be expansivecast inhabit from Monday evening when hatch clodeclareive preparations commence.
For Wilmore and Williams, it will label the finish of an ordeal that has seen them stuck for nine months after what was nastyt to have been a days-extfinished roundtrip.
Their proextfinisheded stay was meaningfully extfinisheder than the standard ISS rotation for astronauts of rawly six months.
But it is much stupidinutiveer than the US space sign up of 371 days set by NASA astronaut Frank Rubio aboard the ISS in 2023, or the world sign up held by Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who spent 437 continuous days aboard the Mir space station.
Still, the unforeseeed nature of their proextfinisheded stay away from their families — they had to get insertitional closkinnyg and personal attfinish items becaparticipate they hadn’t packed enough — has garnered interest and sympathy.
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