Sunita Williams departs ISS for Earth: How and where she will land, when and where to watch – The Times of India

Sunita Williams (AFP photo) Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams, along with her crew members Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, have departed for Earth. They will return to Earth on Tuesday after spending nine months in space. Their return was originally scheduled for Wednesday but was moved up due to concerns over weather…

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From pride to anxiety: Illegals from ancestral village of Sunita Williams go incommunicado | India News – The Times of India

AHMEDABAD: Jhulasan in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar had an unlikely lift-off to fame two decades ago when it emerged as the village to which Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams traces her roots. The comfort of obscurity is what its 5,000-odd residents might now prefer as spotlight shifts to around two dozen men from the village, all illegal immigrants…

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Russian Soyuz capsule carrying 3 crew safely lands in Kazakhstan – Times of India

NEW DELHI: A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying two women including the first Belarusian and one man landed safely in Kazakhstan on Saturday, about 3.5 hours after departing the International Space Station. The spacecraft, Soyuz MS-24 carrying NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus came back to Earth…

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