Indian -origin American astronaut Sunita Williams and Buch Wilmore have returned to Earth after 9 months and 14 days. He is accompanied by two members of crew-9 and astronaut Nick Hague of the US and Alexander Gorbunov of Russia. His spacecraft landed in Florida at 3.27 am on March 19, according to Indian time.
All four astronauts left from the International Space Station on Tuesday. When the spacecraft entered the Earth’s atmosphere, its temperature exceeded 1650 ° C. During this time, the communication system was interrupted for about 7 minutes, that is, there was no contact with the spacecraft.
It took about 17 hours from the separation of the dragon capsules to landing into the sea. On March 18, at 8.35 am, the spacecraft’s hatch i.e. the door closed. The spacecraft at 10.35 am Different from Dorbit burning started on March 19 at 2.41 am. That is, the engine of the spacecraft was run in the opposite direction. As a result, the spacecraft entered the Earth’s atmosphere and landed in water over Florida at 3.27 am. Sunita and Buch may take 45 days to walk on their feet.
Let us tell you that Sunita Williams and Buch Wilmore Boeing and NASA’s 8 -day joint crew went on the flight test mission. The purpose of this mission was to test the ability of Boeing’s Starlineer spacecraft to bring and carry astronauts to the space station. But his 8 -day mission increased to more than 9 months after a problem in the thruster.
