Stranded astronauts back on earth

After you because of a Spaceship breakdown for around nine months longer than originally planned had to endure at the international space station ISSare two US astronauts back on earth. Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore landed with a “Crew Dragon” capsule of the SpaceX space company from Elon Musk in the sea off the coast of the US state of Florida, such as live images from the US room trip authority NASA showed.

Also there were her US colleague Nick Hague and the Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunow. The capsule had docked from IS around 17 hours earlier.

Starliner spacecraft flew back to earth due to technical problems

Williams and Wilmore came to the ISS in early June and should only stay there for around a week. Due to technical problems with its “Starliner” spaceship, NASA decided, for security reasons, to let the spaceship developed by the US group to fly back to earth empty.

In September, with Hague and Gorbunow, only two instead of the originally planned four space travelers flew to the ISS in a « crew dragon » – so two places remained free for Williams and Wilmore.

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The 59-year-old Williams and her 62-year-old colleague Wilmore had previously been in space several times. They are considered experienced astronauts. With Hague and Gorbunow, it was planned from the start to stay on the space station for half a year.