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Space pioneers Sony Williams and Boot Wilmor, who were on an unexpected mission for months after their service Boeing Starliner Test TripIt will perform a spacecraft Thursday. The duo will venture outside the International Space Station to collect samples that may appear whether microorganisms are present in the outer part of the orbits laboratory.
Spacewalk is expected to start at 8 am and will start for 6 and a half hours. Direct coverage started on NASA at 6:30 am EST, and the entire spacecraft will be broadcast NASA+ and NASA YouTube channel.
Williams will wear a distinctive white suit with red stripes, while Weslor will be in an unique suit during the 274 space to help keep the station and its promotion. Williams will be the ninth place for Service and the fifth Lilmour.
The tasks of the veteran NASA astronauts outside the space station will include removing some deteriorating radio communications devices, which will be returned to the ground and renewed on the ground, and preparing a reserve joint for the Canadarm2 robotic arm in the event that it is needed to replace its elbow 55 -foot tool (17 meters long).
Canadarm2, the Canadian automatic arm used at the beginning in the space station group, is now helping to transport supplies, equipment and even astronauts during space and also “hungry” from spacecraft and help these vehicles to the station.
The bilateral pioneer will wipe different places outside the space station to try ISS microorganisms, which focus on collecting samples near the life support system holes to see if the space station is emitting microorganisms.
Any spacecraft and spacecraft that reach the space station are fully sterilized before their tasks, but humans carry their own groups of microorganisms, which are constantly renewed.
Understanding microorganisms that can survive the sterilization process and reach the space station, the changes that must be made to the cleaning process can be reached before humans plan to return to the moon’s surface through the ARTEMIS III mission later in this decade, and at the end, it aims to Landing on Mars for the first time.
The agency follows strict requirements for Planetary protectionWhich seeks to reduce any human pollution of the environments outside the planet – and prevents the return of any pollutants from these environments to Earth.
Scientists want to know the number of microorganisms, if any, in space by the orbits laboratory, and how they can survive and multiply in the cosmic environment, and to what extent microorganisms can travel.
On Earth, living organisms that live in harsh environments, such as Water thermal openings At the ocean bottom, the extremophiles are called, and the experiment can reveal the solid microorganisms enough for the presence of the harsh radiation of the space.
Sony Williams (left) and Boch Wilmor astronauts prepare tropical plumbing devices for installation inside the bathroom of the International Space Station. NASA
Return to Earth
An increasing attention was paid to the current Wilmore and Williams project in space, which started in June when astronauts were launched to the space station on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft during the first move.
The duo was expected to return to Earth after about eight days. But the problems with Starliner, including helium leakage and payment issues, led NASA until it decided that it was very risk for astronauts for use on the return journey, and the capsule was. I was sent to the ground empty.
NASA chose to return Wilmur and Williams to Earth Not earlier in late March On board the Spacex Crew-9 capsule, which is currently being installed outside the space station. The duo will not return home before the next trip, Crew-10, to the space station. When Williams and Wilmmore return to their homes, they will be in space for about 10 months.
In a previous interview with CNN last week, former NASA manager Bill Nelson, who led the agency under Biden and seized the position when President Donald Trump took office on January 20, in depth about the agency’s decision to extend the residence of astronauts in space, with an emphasis on Determination was taken through the safety of the astronaut above the mind – and despite Boeing’s objections.
Among the NASA leadership, the decision announced in August was announced by Williams and Wilmmore on a dragon from the SpaceX crew instead of the mouth.
However, the CEO of Spacex Elusk posted on the social media platform x on Tuesday On the pretext of astronauts, “they were cut off” In space.
“Potus Spacex request to bring astronauts to the homeless home on Space_station as soon as possible. We’ll do that. Breakdown that the Biden administration left them there for a long time,” Musk confirmed in a publication.
Trump shared similar feelings on his Truth Social platform, with its publication, “I just asked Elon Musk and Spacex” to get “brave astronauts who were almost abandoned in space by the Biden administration. They were waiting for several months On the Space Station.
When CNN continued to comment from NASA, the agency shared that “NASA and Spacex are working urgently to return astronauts in the space team -9 safely, with the preparation for the 10 crew to complete the delivery between the campaigns.”
“Spacex Butch and Suni will return to a dragon spacecraft as a segment 9 on regular rotation after the arrival of the 10th crew. Nelson said in a previous statement to CNN:
In spite of their long long stay, which astronauts used to experience throughout the days, weeks or months, Wilmor and Williams remained in good morale and said they did not feel that they were “cut off.” Williams recently conducted the eighth corridor in its eighth corridor on January 16, along with his colleague in the NASA astronaut Nick The Hague.
Williams said during this An interview on January 8 With the then Nasson Nelson official. “In the end, we want to go home because we have left our families a short time ago, but we have a lot to do while we are here.”
CNN’s Jackie Wattles contributed to this report.
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