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Sunita Williams: How will Sunita Williams return from space? NASA will have to choose one of two options | News India

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Cape Canaveral: Sunita Williams ( Sunita Williams) And Butch Wilmore has been stuck in space for nearly two months and has not yet been able to return to Earth. Both of them flew to space on Boeing's Starliner on June 5. Meanwhile, NASA is making a new plan for their return, which may get approval today.

NASA Tomorrow will take final call

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will be brought back to Earth on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft or SpaceX's Dragon capsule. NASA may take a final decision on this tomorrow. Administrator Bill Nelson and other top officials will hold a meeting in this regard on Saturday.

was to come back in a week

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams flew on Boeing's Starliner on June 5. They were scheduled to return to the space station about a week later. But the test flight suffered a thruster failure and a helium leak so severe that NASA grounded the Starliner to the space station.

This is a concern

SpaceX could bring the astronauts back, but that would keep them there until February. If NASA decides SpaceX will bring both back, the Starliner would return to Earth empty in September. Engineers were able to fix four of the five failed thrusters online, but there are still concerns about whether it will be able to return to Earth successfully.