After unexpected 9-month ISS stay, astronauts Wilmore, Williams to return finally

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WASHINGTON: A pair of astronauts is set to leave for Earth in early Tuesday after nine months of the International Space Station (ISS), which ended a long mission that has drawn global attention.

In June last year, Bhuch Vilmor and Sunny Williams flew to the orbit lab, which was believed to have a long round trip to test the Boeing star liner on his first staff flight.

But the ship caused propolishes’ problems and was disqualified to blow them back instead of returning empty without much problem.

Former Navy Pilot Vilmor and Williams, respectively, 62 and 59, were re -assigned to the NASA Spacex staff -9 mission, which flew a dragon spacecraft for ISS with a two team of two instead of the usual four to make a place for the “trapped” pair.

Then, early Sunday, a rescue team named 10 staff decorated with the station, their arrival met with hunger smiling and hugging.

The arrival of the staff 10, along with American Nick Hague and Russian Cosmonate Alexander Gorbonov, cleanses the way to Vilmor and Williams.

After getting a big embrace with the staff on ISS, the quartet entered the capsule and closed its hatch at 11:30 pm (0305 ​​GMT Tuesday).

After a series of final checks, this talent is about to end at 1:05 pm (0505GMT).

If everything goes easily, Dragon Craft will deploy its parachute from the coast of Florida to the beach splush down, where the maintenance ship will recover the crew.

‘Incredible flexibility’

The establishment of Vilmor and Williams has surpassed the six -month ISS circulation, but is only sixth in US records in the single mission period.

Frank Rubio finished first in 2023 in 371 days, while the world record is with Russian Cosmont Valerie Poliakov, who spent 437 days aboard the Mir Station.

According to the Center for Space Medicine at Beller College, it becomes “equal to the course” in terms of health risks.

Challenges such as muscle and bone deficiency, fluid shifts, and adjusting to gravity are well understood and managed.

“People like Sunny Williams are actually known for their interest in exercise, and so I am sure she exercises more than her usual prescription,” Bokhari told AFP.

Nevertheless, the unexpected nature of their growing establishment – away from their families and initially without enough equipment – has attracted public interest and sympathy.

“If you find out that you have gone to work today and are going to be trapped in your office for the next nine months, you may be an attack on panic,” Joseph Keller, a psychologist at Embry-Reddal Aeronautical University, told AFP.

“These people have shown incredible flexibility.”

Trump’s weight is inside

His unexpected tension also became a political power stick, President Donald Trump and his close adviser, Elon Musk – who guide Space X – repeatedly suggest that the former president Joe Biden abandoned the astronauts and refused to rescue.

Trump posted the truth on Monday on social social, “he was shamefully forgot about the astronauts, because he considers it a very shameful event for them.”

Such allegations have pointed out a scream in the space community, especially when the Musk did not provide any details and the NASA plan to return the astronauts is not a change only after the re -assignment of their staff 9.

Trump has also drawn attention to his strange remarks, citing former Navy captain, Williams, as a “wild haired woman” and speculating about the personal dynamic between the two.

“They have been left there – I hope they like each other, maybe they love each other, I don’t know,” he said during a recent White House press conference.