Sunita Williams News: The spacecraft that carried NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore into space is returning to Earth. In the first week of June, the Boeing Starliner spacecraft took Sunita and Butch into space. After this, there was a technical problem in it and both the astronauts could not return to Earth. Now this spacecraft is returning to Earth without the crew.
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will return in February next year. The Starliner will take off from the International Space Center late night on September 6 and will return to Earth on the morning of September 7. Scientists from all over the world are keeping an eye on this mission.
Know when Starliner will return to Earth
According to Indian time, Starliner has left the Space Center after midnight on September 6 at 3:30 am yesterday. After this, it will land on Earth around 9:30 am today. Starliner will land in New Mexico. According to NASA’s blog post, Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams have completed packing the cargo. Now they are preparing the cabin for return. On Thursday afternoon, they closed the hatch of Starliner for the last time, after which the spacecraft is ready to return without the crew.
LIVE: #Starliner departs from the @Space_Station. the uncrewed @BoeingSpace The spacecraft is scheduled to autonomously undock at approximately 6:04pm ET (2204 UTC), with landing at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico targeted for about six hours later: https://t.co/aXgGF0gVqc
— NASA (@NASA) September 6, 2024
Spot #Starliner on its way back to Earth! After the spacecraft undocks from the @Space_Station on Sept. 6, it will soar through Earth’s skies before landing in New Mexico. If you’re on the visibility path (all times MT) and skies are clear, look up and you might see it. pic.twitter.com/k5OfnZZNnb
— NASA (@NASA) September 6, 2024
the uncrewed #Starliner the spacecraft is backing away from the @Space_Station after undocking from the Harmony module’s forward port at 6:04pm ET (2204 UTC). pic.twitter.com/uAE38ApiJw
— NASA (@NASA) September 6, 2024
You can see the landing here
If you also want to watch the landing of Boeing’s Starliner live, then there are many platforms for this. You can watch the landing on NASA+, NASA’s mobile app, NASA’s official YouTube channel or NASA’s official website. Apart from this, NASA has also shared the link of live streaming on its YouTube channel. It has been told that its streaming will start at 3:15 in the night. Let us tell you that Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will return in February next year via SpaceX’s capsule.