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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams to address Earth from orbiting internationa
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Meanwhile, crew of the Polaris Dawn the Elon Musk-led private charted spaceflight created history when they completed the first commercial spacewalk.
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Boeing's Starliner to return to Earth from ISS without Sunita Williams
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finished packing Starliner with cargo and configuring its cabin for return. The duo closed Starliner's hatch for the final time on Thursday afternoon readying the spacecraft for its uncrewed departure, NASA said.
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Astronauts Butch Wilmore, Sunita Williams to remain in space till February
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Wilmore and Williams will continue their work formally as part of the expedition and will return only in February 25. This means what would have been a week-long test flight will now extend to around 8 months.
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NASA aims to unblock space station congestion as Sunita Williams remain st
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
One of the most pressing issues involves Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which is currently docked at the ISS with two NASA astronauts on board. Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on an extended mission due to technical problems with Starliner's propulsion system, are expected t
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Boeing Starliner with Sunita Williams onboard could wait months in space b
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Officials have repeatedly hinted that the Starliner, which faced issues with helium leaks and thruster outages heading to the International Space Station in early June, will be safe to bring astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore home.
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Sunita Williams breaks into jig onboard Space Station after arrival on NAS
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The Starliner had docked with the ISS at 1:34 pm (EDT) after lifting off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday and the two NASA astronauts entered the International Space Station at 3:45 pm EDT on Thursday (which translates to IST on Friday morning).
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Boeing's Starliner launch with Sunita Williams onboard called off minutes
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
NASA said that astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore exited their spacecraft and were transported back to their quarters at the Kennedy Space Centre's Neil A Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building, remaining in quarantine as they await Starliner's next launch attempt.
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Boeing and NASA call off Starliner spacecraft launch
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
This mission follows years of development and setbacks for Boeing's Starliner, which aims to rival SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft in crewed spaceflight.
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Planned crewed launch of Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams on Boeing
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
NASA announced on social media platform X that the problem was identified with an oxygen valve on part of ULA's Atlas 5 rocket and that the space agency, Boeing and ULA have "scrubbed the launch opportunity on May 6 for the agency's Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station
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Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams to fly to space again on first cre
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The duo will launch to space from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida in the first crewed test flight of Starliner. The flight, if it succeeds will become the second private firm being able to provide crew transport to and from the ISS. Boeing's competitor Elon Musk's SpaceX was
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