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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed Sunita Williams and the Crew-9 astronauts as they returned to Earth after over nine months of stay in space. “Welcome back, #Crew9! The Earth missed you,” PM Modi wrote on X (formerly Twitter) along with a picture with Ms Williams. NASA’s Crew-9 returned …

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 …

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 …