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NASA’s astronauts are expected to decrease before 6 pm Florida time
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of two American astronauts – Stuck At the International Space Station – Return to Earth today.
NASA said it expected astronauts off the coast of Florida at approximately 5.57 pm on Tuesday (21.57 GMT). The favorable weather means that the expected re -entry was moved forward from Wednesday.
Barry “Poach” Wilmor and Sonita Williams They go home with another American astronaut and a Russian astronaut on a dragon craft in Spacex Crew Dragon, which I arrived at ISS early on Sunday.
The duo, who were cut off on the International Space Station since June, after the Boeing Starlener’s spacecraft suffered on its first journey that the payment issues suffered and considered their consideration of payment issues and considered them Inappropriate to return them to the ground.
On Sunday, NASA said: “The updated return goal is to allow members of the satellite station crew at the time of completion of delivery duties while providing operational flexibility before expecting the lowest favorable weather conditions later in the week.”
NASA astronaut Nick Lahay And RosCOSMOS Space Pioneer Alexander Gorbonov They also return to the dragon capsule, which closes from the space station at 1.05 am on Monday.
The last stages of their journey will be Live broadcast on a new NASA+ Broadcast service. We will have live feeding at the top of this live blog.
Main events
NASA says that Diorit was completed.
NASA’s live coverage tone today is really remarkable: it was narrated in a largely similar to a sporting game, with detailed information about the various “statistics” of the four -returning astronauts returning home on Earth.
The suspension of the sports space with a lot of technical information is mixed about what is happening during each of this return.
Compared to what is going on in the news, this is some of the high -level government competence.
If you are following on NASA live feedingIt is possible that you will hear a lot about the main events expected in the next hour. The first is “Deorbit burning“It is expected about 5:11 EST, which” helps in preparing Dragon in the right track to retreat in the Gulf “shortly before 6 EST.
Gravity may seem like clouds, but spending long periods of time without grounding strength can cause chaos on your body.
Barry “Poach” Wilmor and Sony Williams will go more than nine months in space – and although not most of the time when a person spent as an outdoor (the smell of Valerie Valerie, Valerie, she spent 437 days on the space station of Mir) – most of the tall space tasks as a maximum.
So what happens to the person’s body – and the mind – on Earth? my colleague Helen Sullivan I looked at that completely, from gravity to “the effect of general view”:
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Establishing astronauts on the International Space Station has become an opportunity for some political harm, with Elon Muskthe Spacex The founder and Donald Trump Akolit, insist without evidence that they were “abandoned” in space by the Biden administration.
Trump, in turn, has tried the paint that was renewed last week for a long time Routine crew rotation tripLaylams and Wilmmore alternatives, as a special rescue task that the White House ordered.
Willmore told correspondents from space earlier this month that he believed that Musk’s claim Joe Biden He refused an offer to bring them home last year was “completely realistic”, with acknowledgment as well: “We have no information about … what was presented, unless it was presented, who was presented, how this process went.”
So far in February He told CNN: “We do not feel abandoned, we do not feel stumbling, we do not feel a fullness.
Musk is later Involved With the pioneer of the Danish space and the veteran warrior Andreas MoginsonWho accused him of lying, and indicated that the return of Tuesday on Williams and Wilwmore, along with their colleagues in ISS 9, was scheduled to advance since September.
In response, MUSK posted on the X X platform that Magensen was “completely backward”, which led to his deepening in the conflict with retired astronauts and ice -lis. Scott and Mark KellyThose who defended their European colleague.
Bad blood continued, as Musk Mark Kelly called for the democratic Senator of Arizona, a “traitor” to visit Ukraine and urge American and humanitarian support to the country in its war against Russia; The politician who restores the musk was not a “serious man”.
The American astronauts who adhered to ISS were assumed to return home on the Boeing Starlener-but NASA decided to move them to a compact flight instead because of “a lot of uncertainty” about Starliner, which was suffering from problems after the capsule arose on a small leakage and some of its adeny failed.
William and Wilmmore, veteran astronauts, receipt In ISS on June 6 as part of a decisive test by Starliner before he can obtain NASA’s approval for routine trips. However, their planned mission for eight days has turned into accommodation for months after the emergence of technical issues, including the reaction control motives that failed during the first cohesion attempt of Starliner.
Four of the five failed spacecraft later reactivated in orbit, Associated Press I mentionedAdding that defenses are crucial for the spacecraft to back down from ISS after it is disintegrated and keep the capsule in the appropriate position for the diont.
On August 2, Boeing He said In a blog post, it conducted a “wide test of its payment system in space and on Earth.
The besieged manufacturer, which struggled to compete with Spacex and seized $ 1.6 billion in losses In Starliner, he added: “The test confirmed 27 of 28 RCS [reaction control system] Defenses are healthy and return to full operational capacity. Starliner’s payment system also maintains repetition and helium levels remain stable. “
Description of a decision Starliner again In September, Steve SticThe program director of the NASA’s commercial staff program said: “The bottom line with the re -Starlener is … There was a lot of uncertainty in predicting defender … It was a lot of danger with the crew,” said the director of the program for the NASA’s commercial staff program.
When Williams, Wilmmore, Hash and Jourbonov left, they were replaced by a new crew, he arrived at emotional scenes on Sunday.
A Spacex Capsule delivered four astronauts on the Crew-Swap mission in NASA, allowing Williams and Wilmore to return home after nine months in the orbits laboratory. Williams said it was a great day and “great to see our friends praying”, they speak shortly after its colleges appeared to the tropical laboratory.
In direct video, Nassa Space pioneer and captain of the team Ann McLean He said: “Hello everyone there on Earth. Crew had 10 great trip here, about 28 hours to return to the space station. I cannot tell you the tremendous joy of our crew when we looked at the window and saw the space station for the first time.”
She said, “You can barely put it in words … It revolves around the earth during the last two days, it was incredible at all.”
The MCCLAIN team was welcomed by the seven-member crew, which included Wilmor and Williams-veteran astronaut Nassa To return it empty.
NASA’s astronauts are expected to decrease before 6 pm Florida time
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of two American astronauts – Stuck At the International Space Station – Return to Earth today.
NASA said it expected astronauts off the coast of Florida at approximately 5.57 pm on Tuesday (21.57 GMT). The favorable weather means that the expected re -entry was moved forward from Wednesday.
Barry “Poach” Wilmor and Sonita Williams They go home with another American astronaut and a Russian astronaut on a dragon craft in Spacex Crew Dragon, which I arrived at ISS early on Sunday.
The duo, who were cut off on the International Space Station since June, after the Boeing Starlener’s spacecraft suffered on its first journey that the payment issues suffered and considered their consideration of payment issues and considered them Inappropriate to return them to the ground.
On Sunday, NASA said: “The updated return goal is to allow members of the satellite station crew at the time of completion of delivery duties while providing operational flexibility before expecting the lowest favorable weather conditions later in the week.”
NASA astronaut Nick Lahay And RosCOSMOS Space Pioneer Alexander Gorbonov They also return to the dragon capsule, which closes from the space station at 1.05 am on Monday.
The last stages of their journey will be Live broadcast on a new NASA+ Broadcast service. We will have live feeding at the top of this live blog.
