Moment of Joy: NASA Astronauts Butch and Sunita Exit SpaceX Capsule at Recovery Vessel | N18G скачать в хорошем качестве

Moment of Joy: NASA Astronauts Butch and Sunita Exit SpaceX Capsule at Recovery Vessel | N18G

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams exited the SpaceX capsule aboard the recovery vessel after their return to Earth on Tuesday (March 18). The crew's capsule was hoisted out of the water onto a boat. The astronauts will be flown on a NASA plane to their crew quarters at the space agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston for several days of health checks, per routine for astronaut returns, before NASA flight surgeons say they can go home to their fmilies. Their return caps a protracted space mission that was fraught with uncertainty and technical troubles and turned a rare instance of NASA's contingency planning - and the latest failures of Starliner - into a global spectacle. Wilmore and Williams, two veteran NASA astronauts and retired U.S. Navy test pilots, had launched into space as Starliner's first crew in June for what was expected to be an eight-day test mission. But issues with Starliner's propulsion system led to cascading delays to their return home, culminating in a NASA decision to have them take a SpaceX craft back this year as part of the agency's crew rotation schedule. #nasa #sunitawilliams #spacex # #spaceexploration #spacenews #cnbctv18