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Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally coming home as the SpaceX Dragon successfully docks with the ISS, bringing Crew-10 with it.
NASA recently said that Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are to be transported home with another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft, which arrived at the ISS early Sunday. Sunita and Butch were stuck for more than nine months on the International Space Station and both of them will be returned to Earth on Tuesday evening as pere NASA recent information.
"The updated return target continues to allow the space station crew members time to complete handover duties while providing operational flexibility ahead of less favorable weather conditions expected for later in the week," the space agency said. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will also return on the Dragon capsule, with the journey to be broadcast live from Monday evening when hatch closure preparations begin. For Wilmore and Williams, it will mark the end of an ordeal that has seen them stuck for nine months after what was meant to have been a day-long roundtrip. Their prolonged stay was significantly longer than the standard ISS rotation for astronauts of roughly six months.
The US space record is 371 days by astronaut Frank Rubio, and the world record is 437 days by cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov. Although their stay wasn't as long, it surprised the astronauts to be away from their families. They even had to request more clothes and personal items because they didn’t pack enough!