Sunita Williams leaves from space after 9 months as SpaceX capsule departs from the ISS, to reach earth on…

Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts.

Mar 18, 2025 - 12:30
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Sunita Williams leaves from space after 9 months as SpaceX capsule departs from the ISS, to reach earth on…

SpaceX capsule carrying NASA’s stuck astronauts departs from the Worldwide Space Dwelling for the shuttle aid to Earth. Merely over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived on the Worldwide Space Dwelling on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts.

The four newcomers — representing the US, Japan and Russia — will employ a whereas studying the location’s stunning details from Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Then the 2 will strap into their acquire SpaceX capsule later this week, one that has been up there since final Twelve months, to shut out an surprising extended mission that began final June.

Wilmore and Williams expected to be long gone ethical per week when they launched on Boeing’s first astronaut flight. They hit the 9-month ticket earlier this month.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams bid farewell to the Worldwide Space Dwelling — their dwelling since final spring — departing aboard a SpaceX capsule alongside two diversified astronauts.

The capsule undocked in the wee hours and aimed for a splashdown off the Florida fly by early evening, weather permitting.

On the evening of March 14 (Japanese Time), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off, carrying four astronauts from three diversified nations to the Worldwide Space Dwelling (ISS). This mission, known as Crew-10, is anticipated to contain reduction for astronauts currently aboard the ISS, along with those on NASA’s timid Starliner spacecraft – Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore.

The Crew-10 mission’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endurance, successfully reached the Worldwide Space Dwelling (ISS) and docked with its Cohesion module early on Sunday, March 16th at 12:04 a.m. EDT (March 16th, 9:34 a.m. IST).

The 2 spacecraft, Endurance carrying the new crew and the ISS because the orbiting laboratory, associated whereas orbiting 260 miles (roughly 418kms) above the Atlantic. The Cohesion module serves as a the most primary connecting hub on the ISS, offering a docking port for spacecraft fancy Endurance and facilitating circulation between diversified location segments.

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