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Elon Musk's SpaceX to bring astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore h
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Elon Musk responded to President Trump's request to bring two astronauts, stranded on the ISS, back to Earth. The astronauts, Wilmore and Williams, are expected to return by the end of March 2025, despite claims of abandonment.
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"Greetings from the ISS": NASA astronaut Sunita Williams extends wishes Di
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
In a video message shared from the International Space Station (ISS), the Indian-origin astronaut said that this year she had the unique opportunity to observe Diwali from 260 miles above Earth and reminisced about her father's efforts to keep their cultural roots alive by teaching her an
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SpaceX Crew-9 arrives at ISS; welcomed by NASA's Sunita Williams and Butch
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
After months of uncertainty, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, travelling in the SpaceX Dragon capsule, successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday to bring back Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who had been stuck there si
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Sunita Williams terms space her "happy place"; NASA astronauts eager to vo
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Both the astronauts will remain on the international space station as part of the Expedition 71/72 crew and return home in February 2025 aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with two other crew members on NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission.
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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 on its way back to Earth without NASA astronauts Sunita
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Boeing on Saturday morning said that the deorbit poll of the empty Starliner spacecraft has been completed and the landing phase will take 44 minutes from deorbit burn to landing. "It's time to bring Calypso home," Sunita Williams radioed flight controllers before Starliner's return to Ea
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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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Stuck in space, NASA astronauts confident of Boeing capsule's safe Earth r
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
"I have a real good feeling in my heart that the spacecraft will bring us home, no problem," Williams told reporters from the ISS.
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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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