The International Space Station (ISS) crew, including astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who stuck to the ISS for more than nine months, landed on Tuesday off the coast of the US state Florida. TASR reports according to Sky News. A capsule with four astronauts fell into the water off the coast of Tallahasee in Florida. Four after landing will complete a 45-day rehabilitation program in Houston, writes AFP.
American astronauts Wilmore and Williams, along with another astronaut Nick Hague and Russian astronaut Alexander Gorbun, went back to Earth on the ground Tuesday morning through SpaceX ships.
Wilmore and Williams were originally supposed to go to space for an eight -day mission. On board the ISS, they were stuck in June last year after there were problems with the drive in their Boeing Starliner spacecraft, and the ship returned to the ground without a crew. The National Aviation and Space Authority (NASA) subsequently decided that the astronauts will be stuck to the ground after the SpaceX Crew-9 mission is over.
Their prolonged 286 days of stay was significantly longer than the standard rotation for ISS astronauts, which usually lasts six months. However, this space mission is much shorter than the American space record – 371 days spent on the ISS in 2023 by Astronaut NASA Frank Rubio, or a world record set by Russian cosmonaut Valerij Poľakovo, who spent 437 days at the Mir space station.
