A SpaceX capsule carrying Nasa astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore and Nick Hague, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Florida, on Wednesday They set off to spend eight days at the space station. The trip lasted nine months instead. On Tuesday, two Nasa astronauts who…
A spectacular sight greeted SpaceX Dragon Freedom with astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore onboard as their capsule made a successful splashdown off the coast of Florida. A pod of dolphins were seen swimming around the spacecraft.Video showed the moment when the marine mammals gracefully encircled the floating capsule, as recovery teams worked to retrieve…
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were scheduled to return to Earth in February 2025 following the launch of the SpaceX Crew 10. Williams and Wilmore, astronauts Nick Hague, and Aleksandr Gorbunov were launched on June 5, 2024 on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the Crew 9 mission. However, NASA had to call off the…
NASA is gearing up for the Crew-9 mission, set to transport astronauts Zena Cardman, Nick Hague, Stephanie Wilson, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov to the International Space Station (ISS). This mission, which is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, is scheduled to launch no earlier than August 18, 2024. The Crew-9 team will travel aboard…
