NASA astronaut Sunita Williams set multiple records as she returned from a nine-month space stay, becoming the woman to do the longest spacewalk and having stayed in space for the second longest cumulative duration for a NASA astronaut. However, space exploration was not her dream job…
How Sunita Williams Will Readjust To Gravity
Puffy heads, chicken legs, taller space height and reduced density – as Crew-9 astronauts face all these health implications on their return to Earth after nine months in space, they will undergo a 45-day rehabilitation programme to prepare for gravity. A stay at the International Space…
Sunita Williams Smiles, Waves As She Returns Home After 286 Days In Space
Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned home after their eight-day mission to the International Space Station turned into a nine-month-long ordeal to bring them back. They flew on a Boeing Starliner to space on June 5 last year and returned in SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft…
First Visuals Of Sunita Williams On Earth After 9-Month Stay In Space
NASA astronaut and Crew-9 commander Nick Hague was the first to emerge from the Dragon capsule with the help of ground crew, almost an hour after the Dragon capsule splashed down off the Florida coast. Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov slid down a ramp coming out of…