SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft brings home stranded Astronauts

Commander Wallace · 03-19-25, 08:36 AM

After nine months " marooned in space" on the International Space Station, NASA_Astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov splashed down within a minute of it's expected time at 5:57 p.m. EDT off the Gulf Coast of Florida near Tallahassee.

Quote: Medical teams will be ready to assist the crew. It is normal for astronauts to experience muscle weakness their first days back on Earth after being in microgravity for an extended period of time — and was even an issue during week-long Space Shuttle missions. Astronauts return to normal in the weeks post-spaceflight as their bodies readjust to Earth's gravity.

Starliner's Crew Flight Test and Dragon's Crew-9 marked Williams' and Wilmore's third flight to and from space. On this mission, the two astronauts traveled 121,347,491 statute miles (195,289,857 kilometers) while completing 4,576 trips around Earth in 286 days.

Elon Musk has said that he offered to retrieve the stranded Astronauts under Biden's Presidency but was turned down.

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/t...n/82490709007/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...n/82521467007/

Welcome home to all four of them.

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Commander Wallace Navy Seal Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Under the sea in an Octupus garden in the shade Posts: 5,314 Downloads: 366 Uploads: 0	Space X Dragon Spacecraft brings stranded Astronauts home. After nine months " marooned in space" on the International Space Station, NASA_Astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov splashed down within a minute of it's expected time at 5:57 p.m. EDT off the Gulf Coast of Florida near Tallahassee. Quote: Medical teams will be ready to assist the crew. It is normal for astronauts to experience muscle weakness their first days back on Earth after being in microgravity for an extended period of time — and was even an issue during week-long Space Shuttle missions. Astronauts return to normal in the weeks post-spaceflight as their bodies readjust to Earth's gravity. Starliner's Crew Flight Test and Dragon's Crew-9 marked Williams' and Wilmore's third flight to and from space. On this mission, the two astronauts traveled 121,347,491 statute miles (195,289,857 kilometers) while completing 4,576 trips around Earth in 286 days. Elon Musk has said that he offered to retrieve the stranded Astronauts under Biden's Presidency but was turned down. https://www.floridatoday.com/story/t...n/82490709007/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...n/82521467007/ Welcome home to all four of them. Last edited by Commander Wallace; 03-19-25 at 11:30 AM.