Buch Wilmore and Suna Williams are ready to wrap the orbital migration for their stunningly longer – and unexpectedly controversial migration.
Two NASA astronauts arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) in June, which was on Boeing’s first crew mission Starlineer Capsule. They were to stay at the station for only one or two weeks, but Starlineer experienced the thruster problems on the way, and NASA extended the mission several times to investigate.
Finally, in the end of August, the agency announced that Starlineer would return to Earth, which happened on 6 September without the incident. Wilmore and Williams would come home after about six months, at the end of SpaceX’s Crew -9 mission, which was launched with two vacant seats to accommodate the Starlineer pair.
Crew -9 is near the finish line; The mission was launched to ISS on March 12, wrap-four-astronott crew-10 Udaan-12 after its replacement.
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Wilmore and Williams have been in the news in the last few months, as their spaceflight saga has become a political issue. President Donald Trump and SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk- who is leading the budget and regulation-culture for the current administration “Department of Efficiency”- has repeatedly claimed that the Starlineer pairing was “trapped” in space, and the former President who Biden left him for a longer time.
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Wilmore and Wilmore have consistently pushed back against the story “trapped”, saying that they are simply adapted to a new mission, which is a separate ride house with a separate ride house with a separate ride house as members of a long -term crew that took them into space. Astraines made a call again today (March 4) during a call with reporters on (4 March), in which the adjacent departure of Crew -9 from ISS was previewed.
Wilmore said, “We were ready to stay for a long time, even if we planned to be less.” “This is what we do in human spacecraft. This is about your country’s human spaceflight program – planning for unknown, unexpected contingencies. And we did so.”
Talking about political intervention in the mission, he said, he said that he and his crew have not felt any such pressure.
“From my point of view, politics is not playing at all,” he said. “From our point of view, I think they will agree.”
Wilmore also said that he and his crew had respect for both Trump and Musk.
The astronaut said, “We appreciate them. We appreciate all what they do for us, for our nation, for the human spacecraft. And we are grateful that they are in the positions they are.”
“We support our nation. We support the leaders of our country, and we are grateful to them,” he said.
Musk claimed that he offered to bring the Starlineer pair “several months ago”, but the Biden administration turned down her.
During today’s call, Wilmore portrayed Kasturi as an honest man – “What he says is absolutely factual,” he said. However, when asked about the initial-return proposal, the astronaut insisted that he did not know much about it.
“What was offered, what was not offered, who was offered, how [those] The procedures have gone – it is known that we don’t have the bus, “he said.” So, I believe. I do not know all those details, and I don’t think none of us can actually answer you that maybe you might be expecting. ,
Wilmore, Williams and Crew -9 Commander Nick Hague participated in today’s call from ISS. All three, with cosmonout aleksandr gorbunov, will come home on freedom, a few days after the arrival of Crew -10; The date of official departure has not been determined yet.
Such homes are return, because astronauts will balance Anand who experiences reunion with their families and friends against the sadness involved in saying goodbye to life in space.
Williams said, “I don’t want to lose that spark of inspiration and that perspective when I leave, so I have to give it a bottle somehow,” Williams said.
