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Sunita and Butch return: Here's what astronauts did during extended stay

Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita 'Suni' Williams were originally scheduled for an eight-day mission, but the Nasa astronauts remained aboard the International Space Station for nearly nine months

SpaceX Dragon undocks from ISS: Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore heading back to Earth

Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday morning in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth

Sunita Williams has 2nd-most spacewalks by a woman - Guess who's first?

During her latest spacewalk with fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore, Williams achieved this milestone

Sunita Williams homecoming: When and where to watch Crew-9 landing?

US space agency Nasa confirmed Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore's long-awaited return to Earth after nearly nine months in zero gravity at the International Space Station

How much extra pay will Sunita Williams & Butch Wilmore get for the delay?

Now, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft has arrived at the ISS to bring them back. They will be traveling with a US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut

Nasa confirms homecoming date of Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore: Details

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore's journey back to Earth is expected to take several hours, culminating in a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida

Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore thank Musk & Trump ahead of SpaceX rescue

Nasa atronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore thanked Elon Musk and Donald Trump as SpaceX prepares to bring them home after 9 months stranded in space

Sunita Williams' homecoming: How do astronauts survive a fiery re-entry?

With Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore set to return to Earth after nearly nine months in space, let's look at how the astronauts' return takes place

Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore close hatches as they gear up to leave ISS

The astronaut crew is scheduled to travel back to Earth alongside Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft

Remembering Kalpana Chawla: 11 lesser-known facts about the space pioneer

Born in Karnal, Haryana, Kalpana was the first Indian woman who went to space. In her memory, the first Indian water satellite was named 'Kalpana 1.' Here are 11 lesser-known facts about her

Dizziness, baby feet: Challenges astronauts face upon return to earth

It may be fun to watch astronauts float around inside the International Space Station, but the absence of gravity has its effects on long-duration space travellers, who experience dizziness, nausea and an unstable gait when they return to earth. NASA astronauts Sunita Willams and Butch Wilmore, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are scheduled to return to Earth on Wednesday onboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. For Williams and Wilmore, test pilots for Boeing's new Starliner capsule, the eight-day mission stretched to more than nine months as a series of helium leaks and thruster failures deemed their spacecraft unsafe and had to return empty in September. Astronauts who have travelled on space missions earlier have reported facing difficulty in walking, having bad eyesight, dizziness, and a condition called baby feet where space travellers lose the thick part of the skin on the soles that become soft like a baby's. "Once the astronaut returns to Earth, they are immediately for

SpaceX Dragon docks with ISS to bring back stranded Nasa astronauts

After SpaceX Dragon's link-up to the forward facing port of the station's Harmony module, the crew members aboard Dragon and the space station will start conducting standard leak checks

Nasa's stuck astronauts welcome newly arrived replacements to space station

Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts. The four newcomers representing the US, Japan and Russia will spend the next few days learning the station's ins and outs from Butch Wilmore and Indian-American Sunita Williams. Then the two will strap into their own SpaceX capsule later this week to close out an unexpected extended mission that began last June. Wilmore and Williams expected to be gone just a week when they launched on Boeing's first astronaut flight. They hit the nine-month mark earlier this month. The Boeing Starliner capsule encountered so many problems that NASA insisted it come back empty, leaving its test pilots behind to wait for a SpaceX lift. Their ride arrived in late September with a downsized crew of two and two empty seats reserved for the leg back. But more delays resulted when their replacements' brand new capsule needed extens

SpaceX, Nasa launch mission to bring back Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore

Mission also launched four crew members to ISS: Nasa astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov

Sunita Williams, Butch Willmore's return delayed as rocket faces glitch

According to an Associated Press report, the new crew consisting of four astronauts from the US, Japan, and Russia, will have to get to the ISS first before Williams and Willmore can head home

Nasa chief scientist Katherine Calvin, 22 others laid off under Trump order

Nasa has laid off chief scientist Katherine Calvin and 22 others under Donald Trump's orders as the agency begins a 'reduction in force', signalling a shift in priorities toward space exploration

Nasa's newest space telescope blasts off to map sky like never before

NASA's newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning of time. SpaceX launched the Spherex observatory from California, putting it on course to fly over Earth's poles. Tagging along were four suitcase-size satellites to study the sun. The USD 488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments. Closer to home in our own Milky Way galaxy, Spherex will hunt for water and other ingredients of life in the icy clouds between stars where new solar systems emerge. The cone-shaped Spherex at 1,110 pounds (500 kilograms) or the heft of a grand piano will take six months to map the entire sky with its infrared eyes and wide field of view. Four full-sky surveys are planned over two years, as the telescope circles the globe from pole to pole

Blood moon lunar eclipse on March 13 & 14: Will it be visible from India?

Lunar eclipse 2025: The first lunar eclipse of 2025 will take place on March 13 and 14. The event is likely to last for around 65 minutes, and this event will also feature a "Blood Moon"

A gift that keeps giving: Athena's landing brings humanity closer to Moon

In the very long term, meaning decades down the line, space mining may be a highly profitable venture

'We are coming up to get you':Trump to Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore

US President Donald Trump outlined his plan to bring home stranded astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, while criticising the Joe Biden administration for ignoring them