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Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut, returned to Earth on April 20, the day he turned 70 years old. That concluded his fourth trip to space — a busy 220 days at the International Space Station. Like other crew members on the space station, Mr. Pettit conducted experiments, talked with students and exercised for hours to maintain his health and …

After a stay aboard the International Space Station that unexpectedly stretched to nine and a half months, the NASA astronaut Suni Williams is back to doing something she enjoys on Earth. “I actually went out and ran three miles yesterday,” Ms. Williams, who returned to Earth two weeks ago, said on Monday during a news conference at NASA’s Johnson Space …

Indian-origin NASA astronaut Sunita Williams has returned to Earth after an unexpected nine-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). She returned to the planet with a splashdown in the waters off Florida’s coast, bringing her mission to a close after an unexpected prolonged stay.Williams, along with her colleague Butch Wilmore, had originally flown to the ISS in June 2024 …

They set off to spend eight days at the space station. The trip lasted nine months. On Tuesday, two NASA astronauts who had been in orbit since June, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, splashed down in calm, azure waters off the coast of the Florida Panhandle, concluding a saga that had captivated the country since last summer. Ms. Williams and …

The NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally on their way back to Earth after nine months at the International Space Station. But they were not the first to stay unexpectedly in space (much) longer than planned. Here are some other notable examples: On May 18, 1991, Sergei Krikalev set off into space for a stay at the …

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have nearly half a century of combined experience as astronauts. But this is just their third time in space. Ms. Williams was born in Ohio but grew up in Massachusetts. She was a test pilot in the U.S. Navy and has spent more than 3,000 hours flying 30 different aircraft. She was selected as a …

After being stuck in space for over nine months, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have finally undocked the International Space Station (ISS) and they are now headed back to Earth. For the unversed, Williams and Wilmore were sent to space in June 2024 but with unexpected propulsion problems in their Boeing Starliner, they were stranded at the ISS. …

Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore, NASA’s Nick Hague, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr GorbunovPhoto: AFP Months after being stuck in space, NASA Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are all set to return to Earth. For the unversed, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were sent to space in June 2024 for an eight days mission. However, due to unexpected propulsion issues in their …

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station at 1:35 a.m. Eastern time, paving the way for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — two NASA astronauts who have remained in space for months longer than planned — to finally return home. The Crew-10 mission, an international team of four astronauts from the U.S., Japan and Russia, joined Ms. …

Four astronauts are hoping that Friday is the day that they’ll get to head to the International Space Station. They were all ready to go on Wednesday after putting on their spacesuits and boarding their SpaceX spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But with less than 45 minutes left in the countdown, SpaceX …