Details of the suffering of 280 days .. The return of the stranded pioneers from the “satellite ordeal”

The return of the American astronauts, who commented more than nine months at the International Space Station to Earth on Tuesday, ended a space and political chapter that followed the world its events and development.
After a 17 -hour trip, the SpaceX spacecraft landed smoothly off the coast of Florida, carrying American leading Sony Williams and its compatriot Bush Wilmor, after he got four strong umbrellas.
He was accompanied by the pioneers on the return trip, their citizen Nick Haig, as well as Russian Alexander Gorbonov.

Distinguished reception

The four pioneers were received at the location of the vehicle landing by sea, a group of dolphins that fly around, and what was from Nick Haig, who was in charge of driving the vehicle except that he chanted by the wireless communication device “her adventure!”, Describing the “broad smiles” of his comrades.
Then the vehicle “Crowed Dragon” was gone from the water, and its passengers were carefully brought out and placed on cows, and from them they waved the cameras.
According to the program, they are being conducted a preliminary medical examination, after which they are transferred in the evening to Houston in Texas, where they meet their families, and then undergo a re -adaptation program with the gravity of the Earth.

Fulfillment of the promise

The pioneers of the vegetable space were launched on a mission that was mainly eight days, but their stay was due to the monitoring of breakdowns in the Pohingya Starlener payment system that carried them to the station.
The failure of the US space agency “NASA” to take a decision in the summer to send the spacecraft manufactured from “Boeing” empty and return the astronauts to the station via a SpaceX vehicle owned by Elon Musk, which made a setback for “Boeing”.
Amid public popular sympathy with the pioneers, this task took a recent political trend with President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, as his predecessor Joe Biden was accused of “deliberately abandoning” the astronauts, pledging to “save them.”
The White House highlighted on Tuesday through the “X” platform what he described as “fulfilling the promise”, praising the role played by Elon Musk.
The rich businessman, who became a consultant close to President Trump, had confirmed that he had been able to save the pioneers for a long time, but he did not specify how to achieve this, and his statements caused a stir among the space sector.

More than 280 days

The plan, which allowed the return of the pioneers long before the Republicans returned to power.
At the end of September, NASA and SpaceX sent only two people to the space station instead of the four who are already supposed to be included in the alternative crew, in order to leave free seats to Bush Wilmor and Sony Williams on the return trip.
In order for the four of them to be able to leave the International Space Station, then they had to wait for the next crew to the arrival of their replacement solutions.
It was mainly scheduled to happen in February, but he was postponed to mid -March, which happened on Tuesday.

Reasons for delay

The NASA official, Steve Stic, said at a press conference on Tuesday that he was not a few who were to send the alternative crew before today, and said that the recent delay was due to amendments by the “SpaceX”.
During their long stay at the International Space Station, Sony Williams and Bush Wilmor participated in several experiments. And Williams considered at the beginning of March that “every day is interesting,” explaining that the waiting was difficult, especially for their families.
As for Wilmur, he said, “We were ready to stay for a long time, although we believed that we would only be a short time.”

The record number

Although more than 280 consecutive days have passed since their presence in space, Boch Wilmor and Sony Williams did not exceed the record set by American astronaut Frank Rubio.
The latter spent 371 days at the International Space Station in 2023, instead of the six months that he was planned at first, due to the leakage of a cooling liquid in the Russian spacecraft, which was scheduled to be used on the return trip.
Russian Valery Poliakov, who spent 437 days in a row at the previous space station “Mir” during the 1994-1995 stage, still holds the absolute record for the longest individual stay in space.