Sunita was overjoyed to see her companions from Earth, a video of her celebration came from space
The SpaceX spacecraft, which took off a day earlier to deploy other astronauts in place of long-stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams of the US space agency NASA, reached the International Space Station on Sunday.
With this, the way for the return of Williams and Wilmore has been cleared. The four new astronauts who have reached the International Space Station are representing the US, Japan and Russia. They will get information about the station from Williams and Wilmore for a few days.
It is believed that if the weather remains right, both the stranded astronauts will be landed in the water area near the coast of Florida next week. Wilmore and Williams left Cape Canaveral on June 5 in Boeing’s new Starliner capsule. Both had gone for only a week but due to leakage of helium from the spacecraft and loss of velocity, they have been stranded in the space station for almost nine months.
The new team of astronauts who left from the Kennedy Space Center of the US Space Agency includes Anne McLane and Nicole Ayers from NASA. Both of them are military pilots. Apart from these, Takuya Onishi of Japan and Kirill Peskov of Russia have also left and both are former pilots of aviation companies. These four people will spend the next six months in the space station after Wilmore and Williams leave for Earth, which is considered a normal period.
Sunita will return to Earth soon
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will give important information related to the space station to the new astronauts for the next few days. It is likely that by the end of this week they will return to Earth through the SpaceX capsule. According to NASA, if the weather remains favorable, the SpaceX capsule will separate from the space station before Wednesday and land on the coast of Florida.
Wilmore opened the ‘hatch’ of the space station on Sunday and after this the four new passengers came inside one by one. The astronauts already in space welcomed their new companions by hugging and shaking hands with them. Williams told ‘Mission Control’, “It was a wonderful day. It was very happy to see my friends here.
