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NASA's Stranded Astronauts Return To Earth Safely, After For More Than Nine Months In Space
(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA))
WASHINGTON, March 18 (KUNA) -- NASA's astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to earth safely from space after their weeklong mission to the International Space Station was extended to more than nine months.
They are slated to splash down off the coast of Florida aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Tuesday around 5:57 p.m. ET, NASA said in a statement.
Williams and Wilmore launched to space last June on a rocky test flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. NASA officials later decided it was too risky to return them on the same vehicle.
The astronauts are concluding their trip with SpaceX's Crew-9, a routine International Space Station staff rotation mission, alongside NASA's Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.
Crew-9 was able to depart this week because four Crew-10 astronauts arrived at the ISS on Sunday, taking over duties at the space station.
Wilmore and Williams' mission became a political flash point when President Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made unclear statements saying the company could have brought the astronauts home sooner but was denied by the Biden administration. (end)
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They are slated to splash down off the coast of Florida aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Tuesday around 5:57 p.m. ET, NASA said in a statement.
Williams and Wilmore launched to space last June on a rocky test flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. NASA officials later decided it was too risky to return them on the same vehicle.
The astronauts are concluding their trip with SpaceX's Crew-9, a routine International Space Station staff rotation mission, alongside NASA's Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.
Crew-9 was able to depart this week because four Crew-10 astronauts arrived at the ISS on Sunday, taking over duties at the space station.
Wilmore and Williams' mission became a political flash point when President Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made unclear statements saying the company could have brought the astronauts home sooner but was denied by the Biden administration. (end)
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