After National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut Sunita Williams returned back to Earth after being stranded at the International Space Station for nine months, her cousin Dinesh Rawal on Wednesday said that the NASA astronaut will change the world as she is not an ordinary pers
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh expressed his pride and admiration for NASA's Space Crew-9 mission, celebrating the safe return of astronaut Sunita Williams and her fellow crew members.
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.
This came after the successful splashdown of the Dragon spacecraft, bringing Sunita Williams back to Earth along with Crew-9 members Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. They had spent nearly nine months in space.
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.
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.
As NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and her fellow crew members prepare to return to Earth after spending over nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), prayers for her safe journey resonate in Jhulasan, her paternal village in Gujarat's Mehsana district.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote a letter to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Sunita Williams, who is set to return home after nine months on the International Space Station and invited her to visit India.