The alternatives to NASA’s astronauts, who were suspended at the International Space Station, were launched for nine months on Friday evening, which paves the way for the long -awaited return of the husband.
The Falcon 9 SPACEX missile was stopped at 7.03 pm Easter (11.03 pm GMT) in Florida, carrying the four astronauts who will take over from Boot Wilmor and Sony Williams, who have been stuck in the tropical laboratory since June.
NASA wants to overlap between the two energies so that Wilmor and Williams can fill the new arrivals on the events on the International Space Station. This would put them in its path to decipher next week and be exhausted off the coast of Florida, allowing the weather.
The duo will be accompanied by astronauts who flew on a rescue mission in Spacex last September, along with two empty seats dedicated to Lilmore and Williams in the back leg.
The rockets towards the orbit from the Kennedy Space Center in NASA, which includes the latest crew of Ann McLean and Nicole Aires, both military pilots; Japan Takoya Ounishi and Russia Kirill Peskov, both of which are former airlines. They will spend the next six months at the space station, and consider normal work, after Willmore and Williams are free.
As a pilot of Boeing’s new Starliner, a week -old STARLINER is expected to disappear for a week or so when they were launched from Cape Canaveral on June 5. A series of helium leakage and failure of their journey to the space station marked, which led to the exclusion of months of investigation by NASA and Boeing about the best ways to move forward.
Ultimately, her wisdom is unsafe, NASA ordered the reference empty last September and transferred Wilmor and Williams to a trip to Spacex in February.
Their return was more late when the new spacex capsule needed wide battery repairs before launching its alternatives. To provide a few weeks, SpaceX turned into a used capsule, and moved to the homeland and Williams to mid -March.
It has already acquired the world’s attention, their long mission has taken an unexpected development when Elon Musk pledged by Donald Trump and Spacex earlier this year to accelerate the return of astronauts and blame the previous administration for stopping it.
Willore and Williams have repeatedly confirmed that they have supported the decisions made by NASA since last summer.
“We came ready to stay for a long time, although we planned to stay short,” Wilmor said, adding that he did not believe that NASA’s decision to keep them on ISS was affected by politics.
He said: “This is what the human space program is around in your human nation,” and it plans for unknown and unexpected emergencies. And we did it. “
The two helped keep the station to run – fix a broken toilet, watering plants and conduct experiments – and even go out silver. With nine indifference, Williams set a new record for women: most of the time the space spends over the course of a profession.
The hydraulic case was delayed at the last minute of the initial launch attempt on Wednesday. Anxiety arose on one of the arms, the argument, on the structure of supporting the missile missile that needs to be tilted immediately before taking off. Spacex later wiped the Hydraualks system for the arm, removing the besieged air.
They said that the extended residence of the duo was the most difficult for their families – Willmur’s wife, two daughters, Williams and his mother. Besides reunification with them, Willmur, a sheikh in the church, is looking forward to returning to the face face to face, and Williams cannot wait to walk on two of her recovery.
“We appreciate all love and support from everyone,” Williams said in an interview earlier this week. This task drew little attention. There are goods and bad for that. But I think the good part is more and more people interested in what we do “with space exploration.
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