Cabo Cañaveral, Florida – NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams They are not the first to be late in space, and its mission of 9 ½ months does not reach any resistance record.
But never before a quick trip has been transformed on a long journey.
The couple launched last June on a test flight of the new Starliner crew capsuleThinking that he has left eight days. By the time Spacex dotted On Tuesday, 286 days had passed outside the planet, 36 times more than expected.
“If you look mathematically, by percentage of the original planned mission, this is the largest percentage extension,” NASA’s head of space operations, Ken Bowersox.
A former astronaut, Bowersoz saw his own mission of the space station prolonged abruptly. He was there with Don Pettit, who is currently aboard the orbits Laboratory, when Shuttle Columbia separated during the re -entry in 2003, killing the seven on board and based on the transport fleet for more than two years.
“The reasons were terrible that we stayed longer in our mission,” said Bowersox, whose planned four -month stay recorded more than five months.
Here is a look at others who were trapped in space, by choice or not, along with some great space flight statistics.
NASA’s astronaut, Frank Rubio, saw his duplicate mission in length, from 6 months to 12 months, after his assigned Russian soy capsule received a micrometeorite blow while he was docked to the space station and leaked his entire refrigerant. A replacement capsule was launched to bring Rubio and his two Russian crew companions in 2023. His 371 -day space flight is the longest by an American. The first astronaut of the year in NASA’s space was Scott Kelly; He registered 340 days at the Space Station in 2015 and 2016. His identical twin brother, the American senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, also served as NASA astronaut in the brief transport flights.
Valery Russian Cosmonaut Polyakov spent 14 ½ months aboard the MIR Space Station in the 1990s. He volunteered for it. As a doctor, I wanted to observe the changes in the human body and mind after a prolonged period of ungravation. Its 437 -day space flight is still a world record. Polyakov died in 2022 at age 80.
NASA Christina Koch has the title with her mission of the 328 -day space station in 2019 and 2020. During that same flight, she made the first female space walk along with Jessica Meir. Currently, Koch is assigned to the first NASA Artemis crew, which will fly around the moon and back as soon as next year.
Last year, Oleg Kononenko, became the first person to decipher 1,000 days in the space during a race. When he returned from the Space Station last autumn, he had registered 1,111 incredible days high in five spatial laps, a combined total of more than three years. The former NASA astronaut, Peggy Whitson, is the most experienced space steering wheel in the United States with 675 days in three long season periods and a short private trip for the axiom space. She must take another axiom team to the space station at the end of this spring. Due to his delay back home, Williams moved to the number 2 with 608 days in space for three missions.
Williams became the most experienced female space walk in the world, thanks to his prolonged mission. He ventured twice earlier this year for repairs and maintenance of the station, which took his career of his space career at 62 hours. In three missions of the space station, he made nine space walks, one less than Whitson. But Whitson’s space walks were shorter, for a total of 60 hours.
Russian Cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyev has the general record with 16 space walks for a total of around 80 hours. NASA’s space shirt champion is the retired astronaut Michael López-Elegria with 10 space walks for a total of 67 hours.
A NASA count shows that 721 people have flown in space, including tourists in short hops and military pilots X-15. Of that total, 102 are women. The first person in space was Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union on April 12, 1961. The first American astronaut, Mercury, Alan Shepard, continued on May 5, 1961. The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union in 1963. Sally Ride became the first American woman in the space in 1983. Only Tereshkova is still alive.
NASA counts 47 on its active astronaut list. Twenty are women. That does not include several astronauts who have moved to management roles in the space agency.
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