Washington, United States: Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth earlier this week after spending over nine months in space – after what was supposed to be an eight-day ISS (International Space Station) mission. Despite spending an additional 278 days in space, the NASA astronauts will not be receiving overtime salary – to which … Read more
Washington: Boeing’s troubled Starliner capsule that left two NASA astronauts on the International Space Station last year may need to fly a third uncrewed test flight before it carries astronauts again, agency officials said as the spacecraft’s first crew had to return to Earth on a SpaceX capsule this week. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and … Read more
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 early Wednesday morning, in SpaceX’s … Read more
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala): Former ISRO Chief Dr G Madhavan Nair on Wednesday said that returning of National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut Sunita Williams to Earth after nine months at the International Space Station for nine months is a “proud moment” for the Space community. “It is a proud moment for all of us in the … Read more
Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned home after their over nine-month extended stay at the International Space Station (ISS). NASA’s Crew-9 returned in SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and splashed down off the coast of Florida at 3:27 am (IST). SpaceX CEO Elon Musk congratulated SpaceX and NASA teams for “another safe astronaut return”. Musk … Read more
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, the two US astronauts currently stuck in space for nine months, had an unlikely ‘alien’ friend around when the newly arrived SpaceX crew docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday (Mar 16). In footage shared by ISS on X, Crew-9 commander Nick Hague was seen entering the hatch … Read more
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 Crew Dragon craft, which arrived … Read more
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, the two US astronauts currently stuck in space may not have it easy when they return to Earth next week. After what was supposed to be an eight-day mission, turned into a nine-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) owing to some technical difficulties, NASA’s Crew-10 will be entering … Read more
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 scrubbed today’s launch attempt of … Read more
Washington, United States: A routine crew rotation at the International Space Station has taken on unusual significance: It paves the way for a pair of astronauts stranded for more than nine months to finally come home. The NASA-SpaceX Crew-10 mission is set to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:48 PM (2348 … Read more
Washington, DC: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who recently completed nine months at the International Space Station (ISS) with follow astronaut Butch Wilmore, recently reveled the hardest part of being stranded in space. For Williams, whose eight-day mission extended to over 270-day stay in space, the most challenging part wasn’t lack of gravity or the confined … Read more
Bonnie Pandya, the mother of Sunita Williams, has said that astronauts are used to being in space for such long missions, adding her daughter was happy and honoured to be there. “It’s what they do. They like doing this and they are honoured to be able to go up on a long mission like this … Read more