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New Delhi: Eight years before the Boeing Starliner suffered glitches, ensuring an extended stay on the International Space Station for nine months, NDTV had spoken to Sunita Williams and asked whether she thought flying on a privately built spacecraft could be risky. The Indian-origin astronaut, who had already begun collaborating …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

Washington: A pair of stranded astronauts will be one step closer to finally coming home when the next crew launches for the International Space Station on Friday. NASA and SpaceX are aiming for liftoff at 7:03 pm (2303 GMT) of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft on the …