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Finally! Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to return to Earth in March after a months-long delay.
NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since June, even though they initially expected to stay for just eight days. But now, NASA might bring the two astronauts home several weeks earlier than expected.
On Tuesday, the space agency said it is "accelerating the target launch and return dates for the upcoming crew rotation missions to and from the International Space Station." Earlier plans were to bring the astronauts back in late March, but now the agency's Crew-10 group of astronauts could launch as early as March 12. After that crew reaches the ISS and complete the handover requirements, Williams, Wilmore, astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov could depart for Earth aboard Crew-9.
The Crew-10 mission will carry NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, pilot; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, mission specialist, to the ISS.
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NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since June, even though they initially expected to stay for just eight days. But now, NASA might bring the two astronauts home several weeks earlier than expected.
On Tuesday, the space agency said it is "accelerating the target launch and return dates for the upcoming crew rotation missions to and from the International Space Station." Earlier plans were to bring the astronauts back in late March, but now the agency's Crew-10 group of astronauts could launch as early as March 12. After that crew reaches the ISS and complete the handover requirements, Williams, Wilmore, astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov could depart for Earth aboard Crew-9.
The Crew-10 mission will carry NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, pilot; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, mission specialist, to the ISS.
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NASA's 'Stranded' Astronauts Coming Home Earlier Than Expected
Finally! Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to return to Earth in March after a months-long delay.
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