Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore should have been in space only a week but only now have been rescued nine months after the mission began.
NASA’s two astronauts, the United States Aerospace Agency, withdrawn nine months ago at the International Space Station, were finally taken from the station on Tuesday and are on their way to Earth in a capsule of private company Spacex.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams ended an unexpectedly prolonged mission, which began in June and departed from the International Space Station, along with two other astronauts, in a capsule that is expected to land on the coast of Florida in the Southeast of the United States, Monday night.
Wilmore e Williams should have been in space only one weekaccording to the plans of the first flight of astronauts made by Boeing.
However, in June, the Boeing Starliner capsule came across so many problems that NASA insisted that it returned empty, leaving behind the pilots who performed this test, and that Now they were rescued through a Spacex flight.
However, there were even more delays, when a new Spacex capsule, which should have transported substitutes for NASA’s two astronauts a few weeks ago, required broad repairs to battery systems.
An older capsule of Ellon Musk’s company then took the place of the previous one, and the operation could now proceed.
The Spacex crew capsule accounted for the International Space Station last Sunday, representing the US, Japan and Russia.
