Astronauts
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Shubhanshu Shukla Set To Return: What Happens When Astronauts Come Back To Earth From Space?
News | Jul 15, 2025, 10:49 AM ISTShubhanshu Shukla along with three other Axiom-4 crew mates will return to Earth after an 18-day stay aboard the International Space Station. Once on Earth, the four astronauts, including Shukla are expected to spend seven days in rehabilitation as they adjust back to life on Earth.
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What awaits Sunita Williams after her return from space? A look at post-mission procedures
World | Mar 19, 2025, 08:11 AM ISTSunita Williams returns: After returning to shore, the astronauts travelled to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to reunite with their families. NASA's teams will also focus on helping the astronauts re-acclimate to Earth's gravity.
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Sunita Williams returns: What did NASA astronaut do during her 9-month stay in space? Explained
Explainers | Mar 19, 2025, 07:17 AM ISTSunita Williams returns: During the mission, Williams travelled 121,347,491 miles, spent 286 days in space, and completed 4,576 orbits around Earth. Throughout the mission, Crew-9 contributed to scientific research, maintenance activities, and technology demonstrations.
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'Promise made, promise kept': Trump hails return of NASA astronauts to Earth after 9 months | Video
World | Mar 19, 2025, 08:10 AM ISTSunita Williams returns: Wilmore and Williams spent 286 days in space- 278 days longer than anticipated when they launched. They circled Earth 4,576 times and travelled 121 million miles (195 million kilometers) by the time of splashdown.
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Sunita Williams' return to Earth after 9 months in space: Check landing time, other key details
World | Mar 18, 2025, 12:23 PM ISTSunita Williams' return to Earth: NASA will provide live coverage of the SpaceX Crew-9 'Dragon Freedom' capsule carrying the four astronauts back to Earth from the International Space Station. Willams and Wilmore had launched to the ISS on June 5 on a Boeing Starliner spacecraft.
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Trump Sends Out Message To Stranded Astronauts, Says 'Elon working on Rescue Mission
News | Mar 07, 2025, 06:56 PM ISTSunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who flew to the International Space Station on Boeing's faulty Starliner capsule in June 2024 will return soon, said Trump while he slammed Joe Biden for their prolonged space stay. Moreover, Trump claimed that he has authorised Elon Musk for rescue mission.
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Trump on NASA stranded astronaut Sunita Williams: 'I see the woman with the wild hair...' | VIDEO
World | Mar 07, 2025, 06:42 PM ISTUS President Donald Trump sparked controversy with a joke about NASA astronauts being "stranded in space," promising, "We’re coming to get you." He also commented on astronaut Sunita Williams' 'wild hair', drawing mixed reactions.
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Scientists confirm cave on moon, could potentially shelter future astronauts
Science | Jul 15, 2024, 11:14 PM ISTThe Italian scientists’ research findings suggest there could be hundreds of pits on the moon and thousands of lava tubes which could serve as a natural shelter for astronauts and could protect them from cosmic rays and solar radiation.
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NASA to provide training to Indian astronauts for joint mission to International Space Station
World | May 25, 2024, 03:20 PM ISTIndia and the US are also collaborating on a joint Earth-observing mission NISAR, which will last for three years to survey land and ice-covered regions of the earth. Meanwhile, Indian and American officials held talks in Washington to discuss opportunities to strengthen space collaboration.
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PM Modi reveals names of 4 Gaganyaan Mission astronauts at ISRO centre in Kerala
India | Feb 27, 2024, 01:54 PM ISTISRO successfully completed the acceptance tests of the flight engine identified for the first unmanned Gaganyaan (G1) mission tentatively scheduled for the second quarter of 2024.
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NASA's first human landing mission to Moon in 50 years delayed till 2026
World | Jan 10, 2024, 11:48 AM ISTIn its Artemis II mission, NASA had planned to send the four astronauts, which also include the first African American assigned to a lunar mission, aboard the Orion capsule in late 2024. This mission has been postponed till 2025, while Artemis III has been pushed till 2026.
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Indian Air Force shares video of astronauts set to be part of Gaganyaan mission | WATCH
India | Oct 04, 2023, 09:22 AM ISTAfter the success of Chandrayaan-3, there are high expectations for Gaganyaan, the crewed orbital spacecraft intended to be the formative spacecraft of India's first human spaceflight programme.
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FACT CHECK: Did ISRO send astronauts with Chandrayaan-3 into space? | Know the truth here
Fact Check | Aug 13, 2023, 09:35 AM ISTIn a video reel that has gone viral on Facebook, some scenes of space are seen playing. In this video, some astronauts are seen visiting a fictional planet. Here they are seen doing some searching inside the wreckage of something like a spaceship.
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SpaceX launches first Saudi astronauts to space station on 2nd private mission | WATCH
Science | May 22, 2023, 06:58 AM ISTThe crew, which includes Saudi Arabia's first astronauts in decades, lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Astronauts ferried back to Earth by SpaceX after a six month long mission
World | Oct 15, 2022, 01:02 PM ISTWet and windy weather across Florida delayed their homecoming. SpaceX and NASA finally gave the all-clear on Friday, and the three Americans and one Italian departed the International Space Station, their residence since April.
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China launches three astronauts to complete space station construction
World | Jun 05, 2022, 08:40 PM ISTThe astronauts will develop the space station from a single-module structure into a national space laboratory with three modules.
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SpaceX brings 4 astronauts home with midnight splashdown
Science | May 06, 2022, 04:09 PM ISTMusk's company has now launched 26 people into orbit in less than two years, since it started ferrying astronauts for NASA. Eight of those 26 were space tourists.
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SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth, ending 200-day space station mission
Science | Nov 09, 2021, 09:25 AM ISTNASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japan's Akihiko Hoshide and France's Thomas Pesquet should have been back Monday morning, but high wind in the recovery zone delayed their return.
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New technique predicts astronauts' space radiation risk
Science | Aug 23, 2021, 04:35 PM ISTThe results, published in the journal Scientific Reports, indicated that crew members with higher inherent sensitivity, as determined by gamma radiation on the ground, were more likely to see higher levels of changes to their chromosomes in their post-flight blood samples compared to those with lower sensitivity.
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EXPLAINER: The significance of China’s new space station
Science | Jun 18, 2021, 09:22 AM ISTThe three-member crew is due to stay for three months in the station’s main living module, named Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony. They will be carrying out science experiments and maintenance, space walks and preparing the facility to receive two additional modules next year.