Stranded astronauts on journey back to Earth after gruelling 286 days in space
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday (March 18) in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth, nine months after their faulty Boeing BA.N Starliner craft upended what was to be a roughly week-long test mission. Wilmore and Williams, two veteran NASA astronauts and retired U.S. Navy test pilots, strapped inside their Crew Dragon spacecraft along with two other astronauts and undocked from the orbiting laboratory at 1.05 a.m. ET (0505 GMT), embarking on a 17-hour trip to Earth. The four-person crew, formally part of NASA's Crew-9 astronaut rotation mission, is scheduled for a splashdown off Florida's coast Tuesday evening. Dressed in re-entry suits, boots and helmets, the astronauts were seen earlier on NASA's live footage laughing, hugging and posing for photos with their colleagues from the station shortly before they were shut into the capsule for two hours of final pressure, communications and seal tests. Subscribe to The Sun: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIzXayRP7-P0ANpq-nD-h5g?sub_confirmation=1 Get The Sun's latest news, exclusives, sport, celebrities, showbiz, politics, business and lifestyle. Read The Sun: https://ift.tt/eghcFKx Like The Sun on Facebook: https://ift.tt/cTEKIR8 Follow The Sun on X: https://twitter.com/TheSun Follow The Sun on TikTok: https://ift.tt/7khAgHo Subscribe to The Sun on Snapchat: https://ift.tt/0WuQ92J #TheSun #News #space #spacex
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday (March 18) in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth, nine months after their faulty Boeing BA.N Starliner craft upended what was to be a roughly week-long test mission. Wilmore and Williams, two veteran NASA astronauts and retired U.S. Navy test pilots, strapped inside their Crew Dragon spacecraft along with two other astronauts and undocked from the orbiting laboratory at 1.05 a.m. ET (0505 GMT), embarking on a 17-hour trip to Earth. The four-person crew, formally part of NASA's Crew-9 astronaut rotation mission, is scheduled for a splashdown off Florida's coast Tuesday evening. Dressed in re-entry suits, boots and helmets, the astronauts were seen earlier on NASA's live footage laughing, hugging and posing for photos with their colleagues from the station shortly before they were shut into the capsule for two hours of final pressure, communications and seal tests. Subscribe to The Sun: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIzXayRP7-P0ANpq-nD-h5g?sub_confirmation=1 Get The Sun's latest news, exclusives, sport, celebrities, showbiz, politics, business and lifestyle. Read The Sun: https://ift.tt/eghcFKx Like The Sun on Facebook: https://ift.tt/cTEKIR8 Follow The Sun on X: https://twitter.com/TheSun Follow The Sun on TikTok: https://ift.tt/7khAgHo Subscribe to The Sun on Snapchat: https://ift.tt/0WuQ92J #TheSun #News #space #spacex
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