NASA’s astronauts have been present at the International Space Station for more than eight months, Sunita “Sunni” Williams and Barry “Bach”, though initially they expect them to stay for only eight days. It is finally the time to come home, and replace them.
After a two -day delay on Friday, a rescue staff for ISS, the first, second season due to the problem of hydraulic system with the ground support clamp arm for Space X Falcon 9 rockets. But on Friday, at 7:03 pm ET, staff -10, NASA’s astronauts Ann McK Klein and Nicole Aires, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the astronaut Takia Anexy and Rosmos Cosmonite Kerala Pesko successfully launched on ISS journey.
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Once they arrive, it will be a two -day handover period, and then Williams, Vilmor, NASA’s astronaut Nick Hague and Roskomos Cosmonate Alexander Gorbonov will return to Earth. They can travel on a return trip in early March 19.
On March 7, Williams Eliminated the command of ISS When they were ready to return home, Rososomos Cosmomot Alexei Ouchinin.
‘We’re not stuck’
Williams told PBS Newsore Recently, they do not give up by NASA.
“Obviously, there is a lot of conversation about it, so maybe people can imagine that we are like that, but we are not stuck,” he said. “We’re part of a big process, okay?”
When asked about the practical abilities of suddenly being in space, without extra equipment, Vilmor said it was not a problem.
“We launched with less clothes, if you do, and it was deliberate,” he said. “We brought some extra gear that was needed. The space station was needed. We brought it with us. So we took off some of our clothes. We were just going here for a week or more.
“But we did. It was not a big deal, honestly.
Vilmor told PBS that he could talk to his family with space, saying that he talks not only to his two daughters but also to his youngest daughter’s boyfriend.
“As the father of daughters, these are my responsibilities,” he said.
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Record Space Walk
Because their establishment was extended, Williams set a record. She went with Vilmor on a 5 -hour, 26 -minute space walk, and with this walk, the record set by a woman spent on the space walk. According to Space.comWilliams now has 62 hours and 6 minutes of space walking, surpassing the former astronaut Peggy, who had 60 hours 21 minutes.
On this recent space walk, the two eventually worked to remove a faulty radio communication unit, one of which could not remove the astronauts on the last two space walks.
Williams earlier worked together with space walks for space walk January 16. On this space walk, Williams and Hague have replaced a rate of girlfriends that help maintain the direction of the orbit, NASA. The astronauts also imposed patches to cover poor areas of light filters on the neutron star interior composition Explorer X -ray telescopes, replacing a reflective device on one of the international docking adapters and checked the accessories and connector tools that would use the astronaut for the future alpha magnetic.
NASA’s astronaut Sunny Williams appears outside the International Space Station during the January 16, 2025, during the Space Walk.
Who are astronauts?
Vilmor, 61, and Williams, 58, are experienced astronauts, naval officers and former test pilots. Williams has been a astronaut for NASA since 1998, and from 2000. Both have a lot of experience in space.
Williams is a former record holder for the most Space Walk through a woman (seven) and is the most space walk time through a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes), and in 2007, she runs the first marathon by anyone in space.
In 2009, Vilmor piloted space shuttle Atlants on the ISS mission, and in 2014, he was part of the ISS staff who used a 3D printer to produce a tool-for the first time in a racket wrench, for the first time humans developed something away from the world.
What was their original mission in space?
Vilmor, as commander, and Williams, as a pilot, 15 feet wide, traveled to an ISS called Star Liner on a Boeing -made capsule. He launched on June 5 and worked with ISS on June 6. NASA hopes the Star Liner organization will provide a new way to get staff from ISS going and leave, and the fact is that this Boeing -made is another sign that NASA is starting leaning on the private sector for its human spacelight options, New York Times reported.
The ISS mission of Vilmor and Williams had to continue for only eight days, during which they will examine the aspects of the star liner and see how it operates with the human staff in space. But due to complications with the star liner, both astronauts are still there.
Vilmor and Williams answered media questions in March last year.
How did they get stuck in the first place in space?
Star liner delayed in May due to the rocket’s valve problem. Then the engineers had to fix the helium leak. This is all bad news for Boeing. It has been competing with Space X, which has been taking astronauts to ISS since 2020, making more than 20 successful travels to the space station.
On June 5, Star Liner finally launched the Atlas V rocket, but there was some problems along with the launch. NASA announced that Three helium leaks It was identified, one of which was known before the flight, and two new. In addition to leakage, the staff had to resolve the failure of control throttle, though the craftsman succeeded in the dock with the ISS.
Space X has also failed. In 2016, a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launchpad. In July this year, a Falcon 9 rocket tested the liquid oxygen leak and deployed his satellite into the wrong orbit, the New York Times Reported. In addition, a Falcon 9 rocket lost the booster in the first phase when it fell into the Atlantic and caught fire.
But he said, Space X has more than 300 successful Falcon 9 flights that are for his credit.
Stuck in space: a timeline
- May: Star liner launches are delayed due to rocket troubles, and then a helium leak.
- June 5: Star liner launches on the board with Williams and Vilmor.
- June 6: Star liner docks with ISS despite dealing with three helium leaks and failed control throthers.
- September 6: Star liner departs from ISS and New Mexico from ISS and Lands, leaving Williams and Vilmor behind.
- September 28: Space X crew launches on the dragon spacecraft with the Mission Hague and Gorbonov.
- September 29: Space X Dragon Docks with ISS.
- December 17: NASA announces that four staff members will be announced to launch in ISS and will be delayed from February to end of March.
- March 12: Staff -10, NASA astronomers, N -McK Klein and Nicole Aires, Japan Aerospace Explororation Agency, Pachayasi Anexy and Rososomos Cosmonite Karel Peskov, delayed a day, then the next day.
- March 14: Staff -10 launches ISS 28 hours of travel. Once they arrive, it will be a two -day handover period. Docting should be held on March 15 at 11:30 am.
- March 19: Space X dragon spacecraft is expected to leave ISS and return to Earth with Williams, Vilmor, Hague and Gorbonov.
