Sunita Williams Will See “16 Sunrises” While Soaring Into New Year In Space

Sunita Williams Will See “16 Sunrises” While Soaring Into New Year In Space

New Delhi:

Astronaut Sunita Williams, at present in house, will see 16 sunrises and sunsets on New Year because the International Space Station, the place she is positioned, retains on the transfer. A publish on X right this moment from the house station deal with learn: “As 2024 involves an in depth right this moment, the Exp 72 crew will see 16 sunrises and sunsets whereas hovering into the New Year. Seen listed below are a number of sunsets pictured over time from the orbital outpost”. 

Ms Williams, who began for the house station in June in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft together with astronaut Barry Wilmore, and initially anticipated to be again in 9 days, needed to spend Christmas on the house station too. 

In a video shared by US house company NASA, she mentioned it was a “nice time to be up right here”. Her colleagues had been seen sporting Santa caps – apparently a part of vacation provides despatched as much as the orbiting laboratory by NASA on SpaceX Dragon capsule.

“Welcome to the International Space Station as we prepare for the Christmas holidays. It’s a good time up right here, we get to spend it with all of our ‘household’ on the International Space Station. There are seven of us up right here and so we will get to take pleasure in firm collectively,” Ms Williams is heard saying within the video.

Ms Williams and Mr Barrymore are actually hoping to be again in March after yet one more postponement by NASA. They had been set to return in February 2025, however it was postponed as a result of delay in SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission, who’ve to alleviate them.

The Crew-9’s two astronauts had arrived on the house station in late September, with two empty seats for Wilmore and Williams. The plan was for all 4 to return house in February 2025.