Astronauts stranded in the space station leave the ship and return to Earth

The two American astronauts stranded for more than nine months at the International Space Station (EEI) left the orbital laboratory this morning, NASA reported.

NASA astronaut Nas Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with the cosmonaut of Roscosmos Aleksandr Gorbunov, decoupled from the US and traveled to the earth aboard the Spacex Dragon spacec The space agency.

American astronauts Barry «Butch» Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived in the US on June 5 on an inaugural trip of the Boeing Starliner ship that suffered propulsion problems. These technical inconveniences forced NASA to maintain, as a precaution, the couple in the orbital laboratory and that the ship returned in autonomous mode after decoupling the orbital laboratory.

The initial plan of astronauts Willmore and Williams to spend between a week and ten days in the EEI has lengthened 285 days.

The nine -month delay has been a hot potato for the scientists and managers of NASA, Boeing and Spacex in countless press wheels, in which they have rejected that astronauts are «stranded» and have avoided talking about a mission of «rescue» of Spacex. They have also refused to answer questions about the foundation accusations of the president of the US, Donald Trump, to his predecessor, Joe Biden, to abandon Williams and Wilmore to their fate.

The arrival, on March 15, of the CREW-10 mission of Spacex that was successfully coupled at the International Space Station (EEI) was the final phase for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s relief, being carried out.

William and Wilmore, in addition to Nick Hague and Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, who traveled in September, will return in that dragon on Tuesday and will fall into any of the maritime points prepared on the west coast of Florida.

EFE