This story incorporates reporting from Yahoo, Space on MSN.com and MSN.NASA astronaut Suni Williams set a new record with a recent 5.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS). Williams,
The four American astronauts aboard the ISS, including the Boeing Starliner crew, spoke to USA TODAY in an exclusive interview Tuesday.
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are conducting a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to remove degraded hardware and swab for microorganisms.
So the return of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore has never been a political story—until this week. And it's a good thing that the two will be in space tomorrow because, as attested to in the tagline for the movie Alien, in space, no one can hear you scream.
As for the spacewalk itself, if you’d like to watch along with the event, it will be livestreamed on NASA’s streaming service, NASA+. Coverage begins at 6:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, with the spacewalk itself beginning at 8 a.m. ET.
The astronauts who have been in space for an unexpectedly monthslong assignment are conducting a spacewalk. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are traveling outside the International Space Station to collect samples to determine whether microorganisms exist on the outside of the orbiting laboratory.
The taxpayer-funded news outlet NPR contradicted its own reporting Wednesday on astronauts stranded in the International Space Station (ISS) in
NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since June, even though they initially expected to stay for just eight days. They'll be back on Earth in late March.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams flew to the ISS in the summer of 2024 for a routine eight-day test mission. However, due to problems with the propulsion system of Boeing’s Starliner capsule,
Boeing Co’s top executive on its embattled Starliner crew capsule business is retiring from the company and being replaced by the veteran lead of its International Space Station program.