Wilmore and Williams Welcome Their Replacements to the Space Station Written 17 March 2025
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Butch Wilmore (center) helps Suni Williams (left) and Flight Engineer Nick Hague (right), evaluate their spacesuits in a pressurized configuration. | Credit: NASA
AP News reports, “A SpaceX capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts. The four newcomers — representing the U.S., Japan and Russia — will spend some time learning the station’s ins and outs from Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Then the two will strap into their own SpaceX capsule later this week, one that has been up there since last year, to close out an unexpected extended mission that began last June.”
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