The astronauts of NASA butch and Suni finally on earth

After nine months in space, astronauts from NASA Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally returned to Earth.

Their SpaceX capsule made a quick and fiery back to school through the earth’s atmosphere, before four parachutes open to take them to a soft splash off the coast of Florida.

A pod of dolphins surrounded the profession.

After a recovery ship came out of the water, the astronauts radiated and agitated when they were helped to get out of the hatch, as well as colleagues of crew Nick Hague and Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.

“The crew is doing very well,” said Steve Stich, director of NASA, the NASA commercial crew program at a press conference.

It ends a mission that was to last only eight days.

It was considerably extended after the Spatial Vessel Butch and Suni used to go to the international space station underwent technical problems.

“It’s great to have Crew 9 Home, just a nice landing,” said Joel Montalbano, deputy deputy administrator, management of the NASA space operations mission.

Thanking the astronauts for their resilience and flexibility, he said that SpaceX had been a “big partner”.

The return trip took 5 p.m.

The astronauts were helped at a stretcher, which is a standard practice after having spent so long in the weightless environment.

They will be checked by a medical team, then bring together their families.

“The great thing will be to see friends and the family and the people they expected to spend Christmas,” said Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut.

“All these family celebrations, birthdays and other events they thought they were part – now, suddenly, they may catch up with a little lost time.”

The Butch and Suni saga started in June 2024.

They participated in the first crew test flight of the Starliner spaceship, developed by the company Aérospatiale Boeing.

But the capsule underwent several technical problems during his trip to the space station, and it was considered too risky to bring the astronauts home.

Starliner returned safely to empty Earth in early September, but it meant that the pair needed a new journey for their return.

NASA therefore opted for the next planned flight: a SpaceX capsule that arrived at the ISS at the end of September.

He stole with two astronauts instead of four, leaving two seats to the spare for the return of Butch and Suni.

The only take was that it had a planned mission of six months, extending the stay of astronauts so far.

The NASA pair kissed their stay longer than expected in space.

They carried out a range of experiments on the laboratory in orbit and carried out space bullets, Suni beating the female record that spent the most hours outside the space station. And at Christmas, the team dressed in Santa Claus and Renne wood hats – sending a festive message for a Christmas that they initially planned to get home.

And despite astronauts described as “blocked”, they have never really been.

Throughout their mission, there have always been space vessels attached to the space station to obtain them – and the rest of those on board – at home if there was an emergency.

Now that astronauts have arrived at home, they will soon be taken to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where they will be checked by medical experts.

Long -term missions in space weigh on the body, astronauts lose bone density and undergo muscle loss. Blood circulation is also affected and fluid changes can also have an impact on sight.

It can take a long time for the body to come back to normal, so that the pair will receive a large exercise diet while their body readjusts to live with gravity.

British astronaut Tim Peake said it could take some time to readjust.

“Your body feels good, it looks like a vacation,” he told the BBC.

“Your heart spends an easy time, your muscles and your bones have ease. You float around the space station in this wonderful zero severity environment.

“But you have to follow the exercise regime. Because you stay in shape in space, not for the space itself, but for when you return to the environment of punishing gravity of the earth. These first two or three days of return to earth can be really punishing.”

In the interviews on board, Butch and Suni said they were well prepared for their stay longer than expected – but there were things that they were looking forward to when they returned.

Addressing CBS last month, Suni Williams said: “I can’t wait to see my family, my dogs and jump in the ocean. It will be really nice – to be back on earth and to feel the earth.”