NASA announces Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmores return date for the earth

Washington, DC [US]March 17 (Ani): The NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, which have been stranded at the international space station for over nine months, will return to Earth on Tuesday evening, NASA said in a statement.

In addition to Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, Williams and Wilmore are said to return to earth on board a SpaceX crew dragon spacecraft.

NASA will offer live reporting on the SpaceX crew-9 of the agency from the international space station, starting with the preparations for dragon room vehicles of the LUKENCHUCKS at 10.45 p.m. Edt on Monday. The NASA and SpaceX met on Sunday to evaluate the weather and the Splashdown conditions off Florida's coast for the return of the agency's crew from the international space station.

In a statement, NASA said: “NASA will offer live reporting on the SpaceX crew-9 of the agency from the international space station, starting with the preparations for swallowing dragon space, at 10:45 p.m. EDT on Monday, March 17th.”

“The NASA and SpaceX met on Sunday to evaluate the weather and splashdown conditions off Florida's coast for the return of the agency's return from the international space station. Mission manager aims at an earlier crew 9 return right to the evening, which was predicted for the evening of Tuesday,”, “added”, ” it added.

According to a NASA declaration, the updated return goal continues to enable the time of the space station to fulfill handover tasks and at the same time ensure operational flexibility before less fantastic weather conditions are expected later.

Mission managers will continue to monitor the weather conditions in the region because dragons are due to various factors, including readiness to readiness, willingness to restore the restoration team, weather states, sea states and other factors. According to the explanation, NASA and SpaceX confirm the specific splashdown location closer to the crew 9 return.

.@NASA If a living report on the return of crew-9 to Earth @Space_stationstarting with @Spaceex Preparations for the dragon swallowing closure at 10:45 p.m. ET Monday, March 17th.

Splashdown is planned for around 5:57 p.m. Tuesday, March 18: pic.twitter.com/alujsplshm

– NASA Commercial Crew (@Commercial_Crew) March 16, 2025

SpaceX Dragon SpaceCraft with NASA -Astronauten Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) Astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, which was announced on Sunday with the international country station, the Space X CEO Elon.

On Friday SpaceX and NASA started a mission to bring us astronaut Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from the ISS, where they have been stranded for nine months. The cancellation took place on Friday at 7:03 ET, with a Falcon 9 rocket with a dragon room writer on the crew 10 mission to wear a kite room writer.

The start after US President Donald Trump had asked Elon Musk to save the stranded astronauts earlier than the NASA planned. He repeatedly accused the former US President Joe Biden to leave her in space.

Wilmore and Williams have been stranded in the ISS for nine months after they arrived there in June last year. You should stay there for about a week. The astronauts were transported by the earth to the ISS on board Boeing's Starliner spaceship.

However, the spaceship returned to Earth in September. This happened after the NASA and Boeing on June 6th “Helium -lecks and experienced problems with the reaction control contractors of the space” identified as Starliner approached the space station. (Ani)

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