NASAâs Nick Hague and Russiaâs Aleksandr Gorbunov, who arrived aboard their own SpaceX capsule last fall with two seats left for the âStarliner duo,â have made a remarkable splashdown after months in space. Following a tense nine-month ordeal, they joined NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and her colleagues, who had been stranded in space, completing a…
SpaceX Crew-9 is now back on Earth in their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, Freedom. As they splashed down off the coast of Florida near Tallahassee, the astronauts had some surprise visitors: a “cute little pod of dolphins.” “The unplanned welcome crew! Crew-9 had some surprise visitors after splashing down this afternoon,” NASA posted on X with…
Suni Williams and other astronauts greeting each other after the SpaceX capsule docked with the International Space Station on March 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI NASAâs Sunita Williams, Barry Wilmore, and Nick Hague, plus Aleksandr Gorbunov, began their journey back to earth aboard a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday (March 18, 2025), the first two marking the…
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released the schedule for Crew-9 return. As per the US space agency’s statement SpaceX Dragon hatch closure preparations will commence on Tuesday, March 18, at 8:15 AM IST (March 17 at 10:45 PM ET). This schedule comes after SpaceX’s Crew-10 astronaut mission arrived at the International Space Station…
Sunita Williams return LIVE Updates: Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will be returning to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) after a months-long wait. A replacement crew comprising NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXAâs Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmosâ Kirill Peskov onboard SpaceXâs Falcon 9 rocket took off from NASAâs Kennedy Space Center…
Sunita Williams, the NASA astronauts, formally transferred ISS command to the Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin ahead of her scheduled plan to board the SpaceXâs Crew Dragon spacecraft to return to Earth, USA Today reported. Roscosmos and National Aeronautics and Space Administration collaborated to make it possible for the two astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore…
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are set to return to Earth this March. Their eight-day getaway from Earth was extended to nearly nine months after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft was detected with faults. They are now preparing to head back home on SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. When will the two Starliner-NASA astronauts return to…
Elon Musk reiterated his claim on Thursday that his company SpaceX “could have sent up another Dragon and brought” back the astronauts “stuck in space” home 6 months ago. But, he said, “the Biden White House [not NASA] refused to allow it.” Musk said in a post on X that US President Donald Trump âasked…
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stuck in space for nearly eight months, are likely to face a tough task re-adjusting to the atmosphere on Earth. “Gravity is really tough, and that’s what we feel when we get back,” said astronaut Butch Wilmore, who will return to Earth with Sunita Williams,…
Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are expected to return to Earth sooner than expected after National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) made a major announcement on Tuesday. The US space agency revealed that it has replaced the astronaut capsule for its Crew-10 mission with a previously flown SpaceX Crew Dragon. Accelerating the target launch…
