Miami – The two astronauts forced to increase their stay in the International Space Station (EEI) From one week to nine months they began to recover in Texas after Tuesday’s shocking, while Boeing Analyze their space future after the failure of its Starliner ship, which left them stranded in June in that space laboratory.
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who yesterday had a successful amelting, have already been seen walking in the images of the POTand in a matter of one or two days they will meet their families in Texas after rigorous medical exams.
Both physical and mental recovery will take time, NASA explained, because they must mainly get used to gravity again. For example, not to leave things in the air thinking that they will be sustained.
But beyond the rehabilitation of both Americans, who completed 286 days in the Orbital Laboratory, NASA and Boeing analyze if they will make a trip not manned to the US again to try the adjustments to the Fald Ship Starliner.
However, for NASA’s leadership, The prolonged permanence of the two astronauts in the US was simply a sample of “flexibility” of the new space erain which they are testing several commercial ships that can help each other.
NASA pointed out at a press conference after the shock that eventually a company can go and collect in the future to some astronauts that Spacex has taken for some emergency and that will be normal as there are more travel options.
1/7 | Spacex capsule aquatizes with the two astronauts that were stranded at the International Space Station. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who were stranded in the space aquatized healthy and saved on Tuesday afternoon, culminating a long mission that began with a failed Boeing test flight more than nine months ago. – The Associated Press
They also detailed that the plan from the beginning was the same: to return the two astronauts successful when it was the “safe” moment and regretted that sometimes they do not explain “well” to the public everything behind this type of operations, how complicated they are and all the factors on which they depend.
About Boeing, NASA’s leaders pointed out that the company is “very compromised” with the commercial agency’s commercial program American who is looking for a permanent return to the moon and getting to Mars.
Achievements in the Space Laboratory
In the dragon capsule Spacexwhich successfully merited off the coast of Florida, Nick Hague and the Cosmonauta de Roscosmos Aleksandr Gorbunov, of the CREW-9 also arrived.
SPACEX recovery teams were responsible for extracting the water capsule and attending the crew and moving it to Johnson Space Center in Houston To meet with their families.
“This international crew and our teams on land assumed the challenge with preparation, ingenuity and dedication, achieving great advances for humanity,” said Janet Petro, NASA’s interim administrator.
Hague and Gorbunov took off from Florida last September, while Williams and Wilmore departed on June 5 at the Starliner ship aboard an Atlas V rocket V by United Launch Alliance.
Initially, both had to return with Starliner, who presented failures in the propulsion and leaks of Helio, but in August NASA decided to make a non-manned return of the capsule, integrating both astronauts into the CREW-9 mission.
1/8 | Space operation: astronauts stranded in space begin their journey back to land. This image taken from a NASA video shows the Spacex capsule that transports NASA Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore astronauts before decoupling the International Space Station. – The Associated Press
Throughout the mission, which in principle had an additional pair of hands, The crew participated in more than 150 scientific experiments and technological demonstrations and accumulated more than 900 hours of research.
Among the prominent studies include research on plant growth, the potential of stem cells to treat diseases and the evaluation of lighting systems to regulate the circadian rhythms of astronauts.
Williams, who made two space walks during the mission, now has the record of the further time accumulated in extravehicular activities for an astronaut woman, with 62 hours and 6 minutes.
CREW-9 completion occurs shortly after the launch of CREW-10which arrived in the middle of this month to start a new expedition of about six months.
The NASA commercial crew program aims to provide safe, reliable and profitable transport towards the EEI and the low terrestrial orbit. In addition, these missions allow greater research capacity and prepare the way for human exploration of the moon and Mars.