After 9 Months in Space, Stranded NASA Astronauts Return Home

Sony Williams and Boch Wilmor, a nine -month -old American astronaut at the International Space Station, eventually, at home on Tuesday, March 18. They returned to Earth with two members of the Spacex Crew-9-Nick Hage’s nick hagupt from Nicka’s Nick Hagtx.

The four crew started successfully off the coast of Florida at 5:57 pm EST. The difference on the Spacex Recovery Craft Dragon Freedom and helped the crew. Then the astronauts were transferred to the Johnson Space Center of NASA in Houston to be included with their families.

Sonita Lin “Sony” Williams, 59, and Barry Eugene “Boch” Wilmor, 62, was stopped on June 5, 2024, on a task for the Starlener test, a Boeing spacecraft designed to move the crew to and from ISS and other destinations in low orbit. Space pioneers have not planned to spend more than two weeks in space, but technical problems with Starliner thwarted this plan.

As she approached the space station, some Starlener defender stopped working. Although the Boeing spacecraft managed to join ISS, NASA preferred to withstand any risks with her return and chose to send Starliner to Earth without a crew on board. The spacecraft landed safely in September last year.

While the residence of Williams and Willore, which extended in space, was unplanned, they were trained to stay at the International Space Station for several months. Both also have extensive experience in space missions, including previous stays at the International Space Station.

In order for astronauts to return to the homeland, NASA decided to send astronauts only instead of four on the subsequent Spacex mission. Williams and Wilmmore will return to Earth in the vacant seats in the Spacex vehicle. After some of the delays, that task-Crew-9, was stopped with Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov-on September 28, 2024, committed to ISS.

But this was not the end of Williams and Wilmore at the space station. It was still necessary to wait for the next task to arrive at the International Space Station in order to leave the space station with a sufficient number of employees to operate it. So even after the arrival of Crew-9, Williams and Wilwmore had to wait until Crew-10 arrived-which did not happen until March 14, 2025-to be free to return to Earth.

Meanwhile, the astronauts have been prepared for this inconvenience, their condition has become a political issue between the administrations of US presidents, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Elon Musk, the owner of Spacex and a leading figure in the second Trump administration, accused the Biden administration of giving up astronauts on the International Space Station. Soon after his opening, Trump asked Musk to return the astronauts who were cut off as soon as possible.

“The promise was made: President Trump pledged to save the astronauts who were cut off in space for nine months.
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“We are pleased to be at the home of Suni, Butch, Nick and Aleksandr after their months of biotechnology, technology demonstrations, and maintenance on the International Space Station,” said Janet Petro, Acting Director of NASA in a statement. “In the direction of President Trump, NASA and Spacex worked hard to withdraw the schedule a month ago.

According to NASA, Williams and Welmore traveled 195 million kilometers during their mission, spent 286 days in space, and completed 4,576 orbit around Earth.

This story was originally appeared on Wire En Español and translated from Spanish.