Sunita Williams

NASA astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams officially retired on December 27, 2025, concluding a distinguished 27-year career that spanned the shuttle era, long-duration space station missions, and the dawn of commercial human spaceflight, the…
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Back in 1984, Rakesh Sharma, India’s first astronaut, looked down at his homeland from space and summed it up with a line from Muhammad Iqbal’s poem, “Saare Jahaan Se Accha” — when then prime minister Indira Gandhi asked him in Hindi: “How…
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President Donald Trump on Friday said he was unaware that NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore had not received overtime pay for their unexpectedly extended stay at the International Space Station (ISS). Donald Trump hinted…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed NASA astronaut Sunita Williams's return to Earth and said the achievement of Crew-9 astronauts “shows us what perseverance truly means.” The prime minister said NASA's Crew-9 mission has been a test of…
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Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth after spending over nine months at the International Space Station (ISS) due to unexpected delays. Their spacecraft, SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom capsule, successfully splashed down off the…
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With curiosity building over the return of a pair of US astronauts stuck for more than nine months on the International Space Station (ISS), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Sunday confirmed that the duo will…
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Crew-10 astronauts will arrive at the International Space Station (ISS) on March 15 at 11.30 pm ET (9am IST on March 16) for a six-month mission, replacing NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore, along with Nick Hague and…
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Astronaut Sunita Williams, who has been stranded at the International Space Station since June 2024, said that she is trying to remember how to walk as she awaits her return to Earth in spring, reported People Magazine. Williams, a Needham…
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At the APEC summit in Peru, President Joe Biden cracked a joke about being sent to space to rescue astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stranded aboard the International Space Station. Originally scheduled for an…
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NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have raised alarms about a series of "strange noises" coming from the malfunctioning Starliner capsule as of August 1, 2024. With a long way still to go before making it back to Earth, the…
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