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NASA astronaut Sony Williams (left) and Bush Wilmor talk about voting from the International Space Station. | Credit: NASA
The astronauts in Starlener in Boeing are in the last extending of their long -term work in the Earth’s orbit – and they record the record directly on all astronauts. “
Sony Williams launched NASA and Boot Wilmor to International Space Station (ISS) last June on the first Boeing crew test trip Starlener The spacecraft. The duo expected their tropical residence to continue about 10 days, but Starliner suffered calendar breakdowns during its approach and maneuver. This has led to an intense investigation by NASA and Boeing on the ground, while the Space Agency decided to follow up.
finally, Starliner returned to Earth without being After some astronauts were mixed, Williams and Wilmmore were added to the descending leg SpacexThe 9th crew mission, which arrived in ISS in late September. Williams and Wilmmore absorbed into a 9 crew means expanding their time in space through the arrival of Crew-10, at the end of the crew rotation-9 for six months.
Since then, the headlines that resulted from the problems of “astronauts who have been cut off” have been involved inside and outside the media sessions. All the time, Williams and Wilmmore continued to perform their regular duties on ISS – including Williams Break For most of the time for a cumulative space accounting by a woman.
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The husband’s situation has gained more attention, after President Donald Trump Blame Biden Administration For “abandonment almost[ing[” the two astronauts and publicly called on SpaceX CEO and close Trump advisor Elon Musk to come to their rescue.
In December, NASA announced a delay to the launch of Crew-10 to no earlier than “late March,” due to the need to complete work on a new Dragon spacecraft being built for the mission. This delay further pushed back the return of Williams and Wilmore, who will fly home with the two astronauts who launched on the Crew-9 Dragon, NASA’s Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.
More delays in the manufacture of Crew-10’s new Dragon have now prompted NASA to swap that mission’s spacecraft for one that can be made ready sooner. The announcement came two weeks after the social media exchange between President Trump and Musk, who echoed the President’s misleading “stranded astronauts” rhetoric. And Williams and Wilmore hope that rhetoric will change.
In a recent conversation with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, the two explained that sometimes mission extensions (even ones that push a space stay from 10 days to 10 months) are just part of the job.
“We come prepared, we come committed. That is what your human spaceflight program is: It prepares for any and all contingencies that we can conceive of, and we prepare for those,” Wilmore told Cooper. “We don’t feel abandoned. We don’t feel stuck. We don’t feel stranded.”
In fact, Wilmore pointed out, all the astronauts aboard the ISS are capable of returning to Earth immediately, in the event of an emergency. “We would never expect to come back, just special for us or anyone, unless it was a medical issue or something really, really out of the [normal] Conditions.
“We helped change the speech,” Wimor Cooper asked. “Let’s change it to” preparation and commitment. “
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Each of the astronauts has lived on ISS for long periods in previous tasks, and both say they enjoy their time in space in this.
“It is amazing how, when the hole coincides after you were here, it looks like,” Oh, my God! I remember what is all this! I remember feeling like a floating like! “I think we are both quickly adapted,” Williams said during the CNN interview.
She also said that the end of the current space light will be emotional: “I think that each of us will be a little sad when it leaves this space.”
NASA is not currently targeting March 12 to launch the Crew-10 mission, which will fly the Crew Dragon Capsule Enduance crew instead of the new Dragon’s Dragon. A typical crew over a week-long space station interferes, so Wilmor said he expected to leave Crew-9 to Earth around 19 March.
