Sunita Williams: The spacecraft carrying 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 a crew.
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will return in February next year. At the same time, Starliner will take off from the International Space Center late night on September 6 and will come to Earth on the morning of September 7. Scientists around 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 at 3:30 am tomorrow morning after midnight on September 6. 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 Starliner’s hatch for the last time, after which the spacecraft is ready to return without the crew.
You can watch 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.