Washington: NASA has shared big information about Indian-origin American astronaut Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore and told when she will return from space. NASA told that Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will return to Earth next year i.e. in February 2025.
What is the whole matter?
Astronaut Sunita Williams is stuck in space. She is 58 years old and her colleague Butch Wilmore is also stuck there with her. Both of them have gone to space on a mission of the American space agency NASA. Sunita Williams went on a NASA mission on June 5, 2024 in a spacecraft named Boeing Starliner. Sunita was the pilot of the spacecraft, while Wilmore was the mission commander.
Both of them were to return to Earth after staying 8 days in the International Space Station (ISS), but in the meantime their spacecraft malfunctioned. After this, both of them got stuck in space. NASA had already said that after September 24, it will be decided whether Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will be able to return to Earth or not.
Recently NASA had said this
Recently NASA had said that engineers are evaluating a new computer model for the ‘Starliner Thruster’. NASA had said that every type of risk would be analyzed while making the final decision. Boeing said earlier this month that extensive testing of the ‘thruster’ in space and on the ground has shown that Starliner is capable of bringing astronauts back safely. This was Boeing’s first test flight with a crew on board. After the ‘Space Shuttle’ was retired, NASA has entrusted Boeing and SpaceX with the task of transporting astronauts to the space station. ‘SpaceX’ has been doing this work si
nce 2020.
