Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned home after their eight-day mission to the International Space Station turned into a nine-month-long ordeal to bring them back. They flew on a Boeing Starliner to space on June 5 last year and returned in SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft this morning. The space …
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Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore Leave For Earth After 9 Months On Space Station
Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are now closer home. They departed this morning from the International Space Station on the Dragon spacecraft after being “stranded” for nine months on the orbital hub. NASA said Crew-9 undocked at 10:35 am (IST), sharing a video of the spacecraft detaching from the …
Read More »Here’s How Much NASA Could Pay Sunita Williams For 9-Month Space Stay
New Delhi: NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who set out on what was supposed to be an eight-day mission, have been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months due to unexpected technical issues. As they prepare to finally return to Earth aboard a SpaceX …
Read More »SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks With Space Station To Reach Sunita Williams
United States: A pair of astronauts stranded for more than nine months on the International Space Station were a step closer to returning home Sunday after a replacement crew docked with the orbital outpost. The astronauts were shown on live TV embracing and hugging their counterparts in zero gravity on …
Read More »62 Hours Of Spacewalk, Gardening: How Sunita Williams Is Spending Time In Space
New Delhi: Indian-origin NASA astronaut Sunita Williams (Suni), who has been dubbed as the “stranded astronaut” over his stay in space since June last year, has done some “amazing experiments” and indulged in over 900 hours of research. Having spent over 600 days in space so far, for three different …
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