“When she came back we jumped up happily…I was so happy… Until yesterday, I felt uneasy inside…God had heard our prayers and brought our Suni back safely…Sunita is not a normal person…she would change the world,” Dinesh Rawal told Ani.
Earlier, NASA CREW-9 astronauts breathed the world’s air for the first time in nine months after SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule successfully splashed. CNN reported that astronauts disembarked on stretchers. SpaceX takes this precaution against all astronauts returning from long-term space missions.
CNN reported delays caused by problems with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which surfaced in a test flight last summer, piloted by Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, causing the astronaut duo to stay in space for nine months instead of a week.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 completed the agency’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday and splashed safely into the U.S. Gulf at SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft on the west coast of Tallahasse, Florida, U.S., a statement from NASA said.
NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, returned to Earth at 5:57 pm EDT. SpaceX restores the crew on board to retrieve the spacecraft and its crew. After returning to shore, the astronauts will travel to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to reunite with their families.”We are thrilled to have Suni, Butch, Nick, and Aleksandr home after their months-long mission conducting vital science, technology demonstrations, and maintenance aboard the International Space Station,” said NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro.Hague and Gorbunov lifted off on September 28, 2024, sailed on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch complex 40 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The next day, they docked at the front port of the station Harmony module.
Williams and Wilmore launched on June 5, 2024, and Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft and Space Punains Punains Complex 41’s joint launch alliance Atlas V Rocket is part of the agency’s Boeing crew flight test. They arrived at the space station on June 6, 2024. In August, NASA decided to return Starliner and integrate into Starliner for Wilmore and Williams and into 71/72 for a return via Crew-9.
The CREW-9 mission is the fourth flight of the Dragon Spacecraft called Freedom, which previously supported NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4, Axiom Mission 2 and Axiom Mission 3. The spacecraft will now be inspected and renovated at SpaceX Cape Canaveral facility for future missions at SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral facility.
