And... Now, Suni and Butch May Not Get That "Ride Home", Until... After St. Patrick's '25.

At one point last year, the promise was that the pair would be home for Valentine's Day '25. Not so. Now St. Paddy's looks to be the earliest possible return home, to see their kids. [It was to be seven to nine days, back in June of 2024. Wow.]

This is tough -- but both are seasoned veterans of space life. This is how it goes. And, Suni got to go on her what? Eighth space walk a couple weeks ago? One of only a handful of women to have multiple EVAs under her belt. So there's that -- but I am still sure both of them are ready to come home to their own, ground based beds. Here's the latest, styled as a speedier schedule, but it is a delay compared to what the earlier word was, as of last August:

. . .NASA should soon announce a new plan for the return of two of its astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, to Earth as early as March 19. This is about two weeks earlier than the existing public timeline for their flight home from the International Space Station.

Bringing the two astronauts back to Earth next month will require some shuffling of spacecraft here on the ground and a delay of the privately operated Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station to later in the spring. . . .

So, I smile widely. . . and for a few more weeks, at least. . . "Walk your (Zero G) walk, grrrrlfriend!"

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