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Sunita Williams, NASA's Crew-9 astronauts breathe Earthly air after 9 mont
Updated : 12 months ago IST
The astronauts disembarked the capsule on stretchers, as is customary, as per CNN. This is a common precaution SpaceX always takes when astronauts return from months-long journeys to space.
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Splash!: NASA's Sunita Williams and Crew-9 astronauts return to Earth afte
Updated : 12 months ago IST
NASA astronaut Nick Hague just delivered his first dispatch to mission control after landing.
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NASA's Sunita Williams, along with Crew-9 astronauts, set for Gulf of Amer
Updated : 12 months ago IST
A CORE -- a "crew operations resource engineer" -- at SpaceX's headquarters in California confirmed the target touchdown time remains on track for 5:57 pm (ET), as per CNN.
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"Everyone in family is praying for her safe arrival," says Sunita Williams
Updated : 12 months ago IST
As NASA astronaut Sunita Williams embarks on her journey back to Earth after more than nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), her extended family in Gujarat is offering prayers for her safe return.
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Ahead of her return to Earth, Jitendra Singh calls NASA astronaut Sunita W
Updated : 12 months ago IST
Now, after nine months Williams and Wilmore are set to return to Earth on the capsule of the Elon-Musk owned Space X.
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Space X capsule carrying astronauts Sunita Williams, Barry Wilmore undocks
Updated : 12 months ago IST
NASA posted the development on X, "They're on their way! Crew 9 undocked from the Space Station at 1.05 am ET (0505 UTC). Reentry and splashdown coverage begin on X, YouTube, and NASA+ at 4.45 pm ET (2145 UTC) this evening."
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NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore close hatches as they gear
Updated : 12 months ago IST
Wilmore, Williams and two other astronauts are poised to undock from the ISS at 10:30 am on Wednesday and are scheduled to splash down in the Gulf of America at 3:30 am on Thursday.
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NASA announces Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore's return date to Earth
Updated : 12 months ago IST
Williams and Wilmore are scheduled to travel back to Earth alongside Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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Stranded astronauts thank Musk, Trump for facilitating return; Sunita Will
Updated : 12 months ago IST
Wilmore and Williams have been stranded on the ISS for nine months after reaching there in June last year. They were supposed to stay there for about a week. The astronauts were transported from Earth to the ISS aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore & Sunita Williams to return after 9 mont
Updated : 12 months ago IST
Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are set to return to Earth after over nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Nilesh M. Desai of SAC explains that crew missions, unlike cargo missions, bring astronauts back to Earth.
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SpaceX Dragon docks with ISS to bring back stranded astronauts
Updated : 12 months ago IST
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov docked with International Space Station.
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SpaceX, NASA launch mission to bring back astronauts Sunita Williams, Butc
Updated : 12 months ago IST
The lift-off took place at 7:03 ET on Friday, with a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft on the Crew-10 mission.
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