According to NASA, the spacecraft carrying Sunita Williams and other astronauts separated from the ISS and will land at the sea of ​​Florida at 5:57 pm on Tuesday evening according to the US time. According to Indian time, it will reach Earth at around 3 am on Wednesday.
The vehicle of ‘SpaceX’ with four astronauts of NASA trapped in space, including Sunita Williams, has left for the earth. Buch Wilmore and Sunita Williams and others rode in ‘SpaceX’ and said goodbye to the International Space Station, which was their home since last spring. The vehicle became ‘Undock’ (separated from the space station) early and if the weather remains favorable, it is likely to land on the coast of Florida by Tuesday evening according to the US time.
According to NASA, the spacecraft carrying Sunita Williams and other astronauts will be different in a few hours and will land in the sea of ​​Florida at 5:57 pm on Tuesday evening (US time). According to Indian time, it will reach Earth at around 3 am on Wednesday. NASA will broadcast this return journey live under its SpaceX program. It is a combined mission of NASA and Allen Musk’s company SpaceX, called “SpaceX Crew 9”.
On June 5, the new Starlineer capsules of Willmore and Williams Boeing left from Cape Canverals. Both had gone for a week only but they were stranded in the space station for about nine months due to the leakage of helium from the spacecraft and lack of velocity. On Sunday, ‘SpaceX’ reached the international space station to deploy other astronauts in place of Willmore and Williams.
The new team of astronauts, leaving the Kennedy Space Center of the US Space Agency, includes Anne McLayn and Nicole Aars from NASA. They are both military pilots. Apart from these, Takuya Onisi of Japan and Kiril Peskov of Russia have also left and both are former pilots of aviation companies.
Wilmore opened the ‘hatch’ of the space station on Sunday and after that four new passengers came inside. The astronauts already existing in space welcomed their new colleagues by embracing them and joining hands. Williams told ‘Mission Control’, “This is a great day. It was very happy to see your friends here. ”
Sunita Williams, who turned 60 in September this year, is the second international American astronaut of Indian origin. Kalpana Chawla had achieved this feat before that, but died in the Colombia Space Shuttle accident in 2003. Sunita Williams was born in 1965. His father Deepak Pandya is from Gujarat, while his mother Ursuline Boney Pandya (Jalokar) is from Slovenia. Sunita first traveled to the international space station in 2006 via “Discovery” Space Shuttle.
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