[ad_1] NASA astronaut Sunita Williams is still counting her days in space. Due to a faulty spacecraft, her week-long excursion turned into a months-long trip. After back-to-back delays, her return to Earth is expected by March end or early April. But what’s causing the delay in bringing Williams back to Earth? Is she happy and…
[ad_1] NASA astronaut Sunita Williams logged 62 hours and 6 minutes of spacewalking on Thursday (January 30), surpassing the record for the most time spent in the vacuum of space by a woman. During a five-and-a-half hour spacewalk with her colleague Butch Wilmore, Sunita Williams surpassed former astronaut Peggy Whitson’s total spacewalking time of 60…
[ad_1] NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were scheduled to return to Earth in February this year — after the launch of the SpaceX Crew 10 mission. Williams and Wilmore had blasted off into space on June 5, 2024, on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. But NASA decided to ditch the faulty Starliner and bring two…
[ad_1] Sunita Williams ‘stuck’ in space: International Space Station (ISS)’s former commander Chris Hadfield has warned, “several noises I’d prefer not to hear inside my spaceship”, after “strange noises” were detected inside Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore’s Starliner spacecraft. NASA had earlier issued a clarification and confirmed that the issue stemmed from an audio configuration…
[ad_1] NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and India-origin astronaut Sunita Williams reported strange noises coming out from Starliner spacecraft docked at the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore report mysterious noises from faulty Starliner spacecraft: Report(AP) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts Butch Wilmore and India-origin astronaut Sunita Williams reported strange…
[ad_1] NASA Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore won’t be coming back home on the Boeing spacecraft. Starliner will return uncrewed by September 6, while the two astronauts will reach Earth on a SpaceX craft in February next year. What might have prompted the US space agency to take such a step? Past mistakes…
[ad_1] Astronaut Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were sent to NASA’s International Space Station aboard a Boeing Starliner space capsule in June this year. Repeated helium leaks and other technical issues forced their week-long spaceflight to be extended for months. The Indian-origin astronaut will now return to Earth in 2025 onboard SpaceX’s spacecraft. “Wilmore and…
[ad_1] The space capsule program represents a tiny fraction of Boeing’s revenue, but carrying astronauts is a high-profile job — like Boeing’s work building Air Force One presidential jets. File | Photo Credit: AP NASA’s announcement on Saturday (August 24, 2024) that it won’t use a troubled Boeing capsule to return two stranded astronauts to…
[ad_1] The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is expected to decide on the plan to bring back Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore by the end of August. It’s now said that the top US space agency will hold review session on Saturday to discuss whether Boeing’s new capsule is safe enough to…
[ad_1] Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams’s job was simple when they took off to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 5. They were to test-fly the Boeing Starliner crew capsule for the first time with a human crew, assess its performance (including its manual controls), dock with the ISS, and return to the earth…
