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 …
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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 »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 »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 »Sunita Williams Closer To Homecoming? Rocket Set To Launch In A Few Hours
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 …
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 …
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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