‘I am going to miss every part about house’revealed at 18:32 Greenwich Imply Time
After circling the Earth almost 9 months longer than supposed, astronaut Suni Williams gave no indication that she regrets her time aboard the Worldwide Area Station when she spoke to reporters at present.
It was an perspective mirrored by her crew mate Butch Wilmore – although the pair each admitted lacking their households.
Now the chance for the pair to hug a relative or cuddle one among their canine is on the horizon, after a Nasa spokesperson set out plans for the astronauts’ return.
The return of crew 9, which incorporates Williams and Wilmore, will start when crew 10 arrives on the ISS – this might be “no sooner than 12 March”, the spokesperson stated.
There’ll then be a handover interval between the 2 crews.
No timeframe was given for a way lengthy this handover would possibly take, however the Nasa spokesperson stated it will then “set the stage” for crew 9 to return dwelling aboard the SpaceX Dragon capsule.
“We’ll be coming dwelling, driving the plasma, splashing within the ocean, so that is what we’re trying ahead to,” Butch Wilmore stated.
That wraps up our reside protection from the ISS, however we have additional studying of Williams’ and Wilmore’s extended spell in space here.
Or, why not take an astronaut’s eye of the view of the aurora, talked about by Williams.
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