NASA
A new team of astronauts entered this Sunday at the International Space Station (ISS) to rescue colleagues retained more than nine months ago.
A capsule of the Spacex crew arrived this Sunday to ISS, delivering the substitutes of the.
The four newcomers-representing the US, Japan and Russia-will spend the next few days to learn the intricacies of the station with Butch Wilmore e Suni Williams.
At the end of this week, the two will embark on their own Spacex capsule, one that has been up there since last year, to end an unexpected wide mission that began last June.
Wilmore and Williams when they were released on the first flight of Boeing astronauts. Earlier this month, they completed nine months at the International Space Station.
On that date, in June, the Boeing Starliner capsule came across so many problems that NASA insisted to return emptyleaving your test riders back waiting for a Spacex flight.
Finally, the help has arrived
On Sunday’s arrival, Wilmore opened the spacecraft hatch and then touched the ship’s bell while the newcomers floated one by one and were greeted with hugs and handshakes.
“It was a wonderful day. It was great to see our friends arrive ”said Williams to control the mission.
If weather conditions allow it, the Spacex capsule that transports Wilmore, Williams and two other astronauts will be challenged from the space station not before Wednesday and will dive off the coast of Florida.
Until then, there will be 11 elements aboard the laboratory in orbit, representing the US, Russia and Japan.
Despite this waiting time, the stay of the two astronauts is shorter than or, established by the NASA astronaut Frank Rubioaboard the ISS in 2023.
In turn, the world record of the Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakovwhich spent 437 consecutive days aboard the MIR space station, between January 1994 and March 1995.
