After nine months of stay at the International Space Station (ISS), Sunita “Sunny” Williams and Barry “Bach” have returned to the Earth. Leak and throuter problems He used to arrive on the Boeing star liner spacecraft.
After a 17 -hour return journey from ISS, 5:57 pm on Tuesday, Williams and Vilmur sprayed a Space X -Dragon capsule in the Gulf of Mexico.
His return indicates the end of one of the alien chapters in the history of the recent spacelight, thanks to the issues that the Boeing star liner tested, and the way the CEO of Space X, Elon Musk, has played the politics of the withdrawal of astronauts.
Williams and Vilmor initially launched for ISS in June 2024 as part of a mission, which was very important to try to compete with Boeing’s Space X. Aviation Behmot obtained a contract with Space X in 2014 to send astronauts to NASA to NASA, eventually they were taken far beyond the solar system.
Space x performed this First of the first staff With its crew dragon spacecraft in 2020 – during the early days of the Covade Poetry. In the meantime the Boeing star liner project was dragged down Increase the cost And the delayed
In June 2024, Boeing was to help see them all in the flight. The purpose was to send Williams and Vilmor to ISS and then bring them back home after a short stay. But the star liner had problems even before he did not do it with the ISS. Once the astronauts finally boarded, NASA and Boeing tested the star liner within a few weeks before deciding to bring them back.
NASA quickly began working on a plan to bring Williams and Vilmor back with Space X. After some forward, they decided to wait until early 2025 to bring the pair home so that ISS did not get short staff.
In recent months, though, Musk has claimed (without providing any evidence) that he had previously offered to bring the astronauts home – and that the former president, Joe Biden, refused the offer because it would help his political rival Donald Trump.
Under Biden, NASA has former Administrator and Deputy Administrator Both Said The space agency was not aware of any offer. Cnn Reported on Tuesday Senior White House officials also claim they were not aware of any offer.
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The story was updated to include astronauts withdrawing video.