NASA astronaut Sunita Williams’ sister-in-law Falguni Pandya said she was shown a photo of the Maha Kumbh from the International Space Station (ISS). In an exclusive interview with NDTV, she said, “I talked to her (Sunita Williams) right before I travelled to Kumbh. I asked her if she can see …
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Exclusive: Sunita Williams’ Family Confirms She Will Visit India Soon
New Delhi: Indian-origin NASA astronaut Sunita Williams’ family today said they were “happy” that she has returned to Earth safely after an unexpected nine-month stay in space. “That moment was surreal,” Falguni Pandya, her sister-in-law, told NDTV, referring to the SpaceX Dragon spaceship, which brought back Ms Williams and her colleague Butch …
Read More »Sunita Williams Homecoming Live Updates: Stranded Astronaut’s Return Journey To Earth Begins After 9 Months
According to retired NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, there is no special overtime salary for astronauts. Since they are federal employees, their time in space is treated just like any regular work trip on Earth. They continue to earn their regular pay, with NASA covering their food and living expenses on …
Read More »Sunita Williams’ Homecoming Date Confirmed, Will Splash Down Off US Coast
Washington, United States: A pair of US astronauts stuck for more than nine months on the International Space Station will be returned to Earth on Tuesday evening, NASA said. Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are to be transported home with another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard a SpaceX …
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 »NASA Crew-10 At ISS Live Updates: Sunita Williams To Soon Travel Homewards
Crew-10 ISS Space Docking Live Updates: Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission have reached the space station. The Crew-10 mission carries NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov to ISS. NASA and SpaceX launched a crewed mission to …
Read More »Video: Falcon 9 Lands At Cape Canaveral, Minutes After Crew-10 Launch
New Delhi: The first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket landed at the Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, after launching the Crew-10 mission into space, which will hope bring astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore back to Earth. The landing occurred around 10 …
Read More »Sunita Williams Closer To Homecoming, NASA-SpaceX Launch Crew-10 Mission
The NASA and billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Friday (local time) launched the Crew-10 mission to bring back stranded astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. The Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a Dragon spacecraft on the Crew-10 mission, lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Have a great time in space, …
Read More »NASA-SpaceX Postpone Mission To Bring Back Stranded Astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore
With less than an hour to go before liftoff, SpaceX postponed the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from Florida, US that was carrying a crew of four astronauts who would have replaced the so-called stranded NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. According to NASA and SpaceX, they have …
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