Now officially seven months on board the International Space Station, the two NASA astronauts who flew up on Boeing’s Starliner last June have a busy schedule in the new year while awaiting their flight home in the spring.
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are waiting for their new ride back to Earth via SpaceX’s Crew Dragon this spring.
One of the two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) has taken their first space walk since arriving at the station nearly seven months ago.
The call provided a New Year update on the crew, which includes astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who arrived aboard Boeing’s Starliner. The pair will return alongside SpaceX’s Crew-9 team following safety concerns with the Starliner spacecraft.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- One of NASA’s two stuck astronauts got a much welcomed change of scenery Thursday, stepping out on her first spacewalk since arriving at the International Space Station more than seven months ago.
Suni Williams wasn’t planning to participate in a spacewalk when she arrived aboard the International Space Station last year—but she also wasn’t planning her eight-day trip to turn into a ten-month tenure,
Sunita Williams, an astronaut of Indian descent, is preparing for her first spacewalk in over a decade as part of SpaceX's Crew-6 mission. She will address a light leak on the NICER telescope aboard the ISS,
During this spacewalk, Williams and Hague will step out to replace a rate gyro assembly which provides orientation control for the space station. They will install patches to cover the damaged areas of light filters for Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER),
Sunita Williams, one of the NASA astronauts stuck in space, ventured out to conduct essential maintenance tasks on the International Space Station (ISS).
The spacewalk marked Williams’ eighth such event in her career, while for Hague it was fourth such event. The two astronauts spending around six and a half hours working outside the station.
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore launched aboard Boeing's new Starliner capsule last June on what should have been a weeklong test flight. They've been in space ever since.