Two NASA astronauts splashed down off Florida’s Gulf Coast on Tuesday, returning to Earth after a stay on the International Space Station that lasted some nine months longer than they had originally planned.
The return of Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore after 286 days in space completed a voyage that began in June and was supposed to have lasted as few as eight days. Instead, the mission stretched into weeks, then months, as engineers puzzled over problems with the astronauts’ spacecraft.
If you could talk to Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the two astronauts, what would you ask them? Why?
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