Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore return to Earth on Tuesday (18) after almost nine months arrested at the International Space Station (ISS). They Spatial Nave with Starliner and Mission Crew-9 Test Flight Astronauts He landed on Earth on Tuesday night (18). THE vehicle landed in the water In the Talahasse region, on the Florida coast, in the United States.
The two arrived at ISS in July 2024 and would even return before, but NASA decided to take Williams and Wilmore home aboard its Boeing Starliner capsule would be very risky. The agency then chose to include the pair in the regular rotation of the International Space Station crew.
They are not, however, the American astronauts who spent more time in space. The record for the United States belongs to Frank Rubio, who was in orbit for 371 days in a row, between 2022 and 2023, when the prediction of the duration of his space trip was only six months. The reason was the discovery of a soda liquid leakage from his original trip while coupled to the advanced orbit.
In an interview with the CNN Rubio said he would not accept the mission if he knew he would stay so long in space.
“And this is just because of family things that were happening last year,” said the astronaut at the time. “And if I knew I would have to lose these very important events, I would have to say, ‘Thank you, but no, thanks.’
At NPR, he has established that he missed more space and could be outdoors. According to Rubio, the ISS is “very small”, with “a very closed space”.
“We say it’s the size of a two to three -bedroom house, but it’s actually a two to three -bedroom house made up of full corridors.There is a big room where you can go and just enjoy some space. Our crew housing, which are really the only privacy you have, are the size of a small telephone cabin. So, yes, you have to be disciplined so as not to focus on the fact that it is so closed, ”he said.
He also minimized the effect of spending so much time on space on his body, praising NASA’s experience over the decades of ISS’s operating. The astronaut even reported having lost less weight than many of his professional companions who spent only six months at the scene.
“We kind of find out how to keep humans healthy up there. One of the biggest things is the exercise of resistance, because we found that the biggest effects were really on our musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems. Doing strength training and cardiovascular training really keeps us with very good health, ”he explained.
Frank Rubio destroyed astronaut Mark T. Vande Hei at the post of American who spent more time in space. Its predecessor had established a 350 -day record in 2022. The late Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, which recorded 437 continuous orbit days aboard the Russian Mir space station, between January 1994 and March 1995, holds the longest mission mission record in space.
*With information from CNN International
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