Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams of NASA, who attracted attention from all over the world when their intended brief stay in space turned into a nine-month, politically charged mission, are finally returning home.
Along with two coworkers, NASA’s Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Roscosmos space agency, the astronauts boarded a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and left the ISS at 1:05 a.m. ET will be on Tuesday afternoon in preparation for their anticipated splashdown return.
The Crew-9 mission, which is a regular staff rotation run in collaboration with SpaceX and NASA, includes Williams, Wilmore, Hague, and Gorbunov. Alongside two vacant seats designated for Williams and Wilmore, who have been aboard the orbiting laboratory since last June when their initial journey on a Boeing Starliner spacecraft malfunctioned, Hague and Gorbunov boarded the Crew-9 capsule when it launched to the space station in September.
A safe return to Earth will bring an end to a journey that, for Williams and Wilmore, has attracted widespread attention due to the surprise of their prolonged orbit and the unexpected turn of circumstances that prevented them from traveling home in the Boeing Starliner.
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