Sunita Williams Stuck in Space: Indian -origin astronaut Sunita Williams and her partner Buch Wilmore have been trapped in space for the past 9 months. Meanwhile, many attempts to bring him back have failed. However, now Spacex has launched the mission to bring back Sunita Williams and Buch Wilmore back. Due to which once again both of them are expected to return. Sunita Williams has gone to space before. But this time Sunita’s journey for 8 days became so long, know in 10 points.
- On 5 June 2024, Sunita Williams and her partner Buch Wilmore flew to the International Space Station (ISS). His journey of space was 8 days. Both had to come back to Earth after 10 days.
- During this mission, Sunita and Buch had to do research and many experiments in 8 days at the space station. The main objective of the mission was to prove the ability of the spacecraft to take the astronauts back to the space station.
- But his return was postponed due to a malfunction in the thrust of Starlineer spacecraft. NASA reported that there is a small helium leak in the thruster of the service module of the spacecraft. 25 days later, 5 helium leaked in the capsule of the spacecraft. 5 thrusters had stopped working.
- The Starlineer spacecraft tried to fix the malfunction in the thruster. But this malfunction could not be overcome. Due to this, the return of Sunita Williams and Buch Wilmore was postponed.
- Both Buch Villmore and Sunita Williams are experienced astronauts and are the Test pilots of the American Navy but were not sent with preparation to stay in space for so long.
- But based on their old experience, both are successful with success at the International Space Station and are engaged in experiments and maintenance work there throughout the time.
- Recently, Sunita’s hope of return increased when US President Donald Trump assigned the work of bringing the astronauts back to Elon Musk’s company SpaceX. Then SpaceX was to launch ‘Crew-10 Mission’ from SpaceX Rocket Falcon 9 for the return of astronauts but this launch was postponed for technical reasons.
- NASA and SpaceX have launched the Crew-10 mission to bring back the stranded astronaut Sunita Williams and Buch Wilmore. In this mission, Falcon 9 rockets have flew from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center regarding the dragon spacecraft.
- A crew dragon capsule with Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center launched at 7:03 pm (local time). In this mission, a team of four members started traveling towards their target.
- Now if the crew-10 mission is successful, Williams and Wilmore are expected to depart from ISS after March 20.
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