{"id":14085,"date":"2025-03-19T16:17:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/nasa-astronauts-return-in-spacex-capsule-splashing-down-on-earth-after-9-months\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:17:40","slug":"nasa-astronauts-return-in-spacex-capsule-splashing-down-on-earth-after-9-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/nasa-astronauts-return-in-spacex-capsule-splashing-down-on-earth-after-9-months\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronauts Return in SpaceX Capsule, Splashing Down on Earth After 9 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They set off to spend eight days at the space station. The trip lasted nine months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, two NASA astronauts who had been in orbit since June, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, splashed down in calm, azure waters off the coast of the Florida Panhandle, concluding a saga that had captivated the country since last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore blasted off in June for the International Space Station on their test flight of Starliner, a Boeing spacecraft that was to provide NASA with another option, outside of SpaceX, to carry astronauts to and from orbit. But the Starliner experienced problems with its propulsion system, prompting NASA to send it back to Earth with no crew aboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was a SpaceX capsule, the Crew Dragon, that brought them back from space on Tuesday. The spacecraft detached from the space station just after 1 a.m. Eastern time and then traveled back to Earth, slowing from more than 17,000 miles an hour before deploying four large parachutes that gently plopped the spacecraft into the water just before 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Minutes later, as recovery teams inspected the capsule, a pod of curious dolphins circled, a playful terrestrial welcoming party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Once the capsule had been hoisted onto a ship, the door was opened and the beaming astronauts were extracted from the spacecraft. After months of weightlessness, their bodies still adjusting to the pull of gravity, they were lifted onto gurneys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey all looked very healthy,\u201d Steve Stich, the manager of NASA\u2019s commercial crew program, said during a news conference after the splashdown. \u201cThey all looked like they were feeling about normal for the landing and recovery phase, where their body is trying to re-adapt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Returning with the two astronauts were Nick Hague, the commander of this mission known as Crew-9, and Aleksandr Gorbunov, a Russian astronaut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The four astronauts were scheduled to fly back to NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where they were to remain briefly until doctors let them go home. \u201cThey\u2019ll join their families in the next day or so,\u201d Mr. Stich said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The mission both underlined the dominance of SpaceX in the growing field of private spaceflight, and the comparative woes of Boeing. But as with so many things in the early stages of the Trump administration, the astronauts\u2019 return was tinged with politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump suggested in January that the Biden administration had stranded the astronauts, and Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, said this month that the Biden administration had rejected his offer to bring them home sooner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Bill Nelson, who served as the administrator of NASA during the Biden administration, said that NASA never heard about Mr. Musk\u2019s offer, and that the agency\u2019s decisions were based on what made the most sense for the operations of the space station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOn the basis that there was no contact with NASA, there was no political consideration from NASA\u2019s point of view,\u201d Mr. Nelson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">About a half-hour after the astronauts returned, the White House posted on social media, \u201cPROMISE MADE, PROMISE KEPT: President Trump pledged to rescue the astronauts stranded in space for nine months.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">However, it has been NASA\u2019s plan since August for the Crew-9 mission to return with Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore around this time frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An hour later after the White House post, Mr. Musk offered celebratory congratulations <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1902141220505243751\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on X<\/a> to teams at SpaceX and NASA \u201cfor another safe astronaut return!\u201d He also thanked President Trump \u201cfor prioritizing this mission!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the astronauts also disputed the notion that they were stuck in space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s work. It\u2019s fun. It\u2019s been trying at times, no doubt,\u201d Mr. Wilmore said in an interview from the space station last week with The New York Times. \u201cBut \u2018stranded\u2019? No. \u2018Stuck\u2019? No. \u2018Abandoned\u2019? No.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the station, Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore had to adjust to their unexpectedly long stay. From the start, they were short of clothes, because their suitcases had been left off the Starliner to make room for a replacement pump to fix the toilet. They relied on spare clothing in the space station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">NASA sent up their clothes and other personal items a couple of months later on a Northrop Grumman cargo ship. Such robotic cargo ships arrive periodically from Russia and the United States, bringing food, supplies and experiments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/station\/iss-research\/nasas-spacex-crew-9-scientific-mission-on-space-station-concludes\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a summary published by NASA<\/a>, astronauts at the space station, which orbits about 250 miles above the Earth, carried out a variety of tasks on the station, including maintenance work and nearly a thousand hours of scientific research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That included a spacewalk by Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore to swab the outside of the space station to see if Earth microbes could survive and maybe even thrive in space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Williams also helped set up an experiment to study how microbes produced nutrients like vitamins, and also conducted research on how weightlessness affected microscopic organisms that could be used to make food and medicines, NASA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The astronauts were able to connect with friends, family and the public on the ground \u2014 they had access to email and video calls. They tried to put a positive spin on the whole experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou get a little bit more time to enjoy the view out the window,\u201d Ms. Williams said in the interview with The Times last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Not everything they saw was pleasing. From space, Mr. Wilmore saw Hurricane Beryl, which hit Houston last July. The storm damaged the roof of his home. The astronauts also saw the smoke from the Los Angeles fires in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Wilmore, who has a wife and two children, missed most of his younger daughter\u2019s senior year of high school and his elder daughter\u2019s sophomore year in college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said his younger daughter was \u201ctough,\u201d but she also told him, \u201cI didn\u2019t know how much I needed you until you were gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nine months is not an unusually long stay for astronauts in space \u2014 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/20\/science\/nasa-frank-rubio-space-record.html\" title=\"\">Frank Rubio<\/a> holds the record for the longest stay in space by an American astronaut at 371 days \u2014 but Mr. Wilmore and Ms. Williams nonetheless had to ward against the damage that space could inflict on the body. Without gravity, bone mass tends to diminish, a space version of osteoporosis. The astronauts worked out on the modified gym equipment in the space station, which included a treadmill with a harness that keeps the runner from floating away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By the end of their journey, Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore had traveled nearly 121,347,500 miles, having orbited the earth 4,576 times. Mr. Wilmore has spent a total of 31 hours conducting spacewalks during his career and Ms. Williams 62 hours, a record for a woman astronaut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Their 286 days in space, including the trip up in June and the descent on Tuesday, was long. But their mission was perhaps not as dramatic as the one carried out by Sergei Krikalev, a Soviet astronaut who blasted off on May 18, 1991, for a stay at the Soviet Union\u2019s space station, Mir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While Mr. Krikalev was orbiting the earth, the Soviet Union disbanded, and he was asked to extend his stay by almost five months, in part because of his country\u2019s disintegration and money problems in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He ended up <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1992\/03\/26\/world\/after-313-days-in-space-it-s-a-trip-to-a-new-world.html\" title=\"\">staying in space for 313 days<\/a>, returning to a home country that no longer existed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Reporting was contributed by <!-- -->Talya Minsberg<!-- -->, <!-- -->Claire Moses<!-- -->, <!-- -->Michael Roston<!-- --> and <!-- -->John Yoon<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/17\/science\/nasa-astronauts-return-splashdown.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They set off to spend eight days at the space station. 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