How did sunita williams spend 9 months in space?
Experienced astronaut sunita williams of the US space agency nasa and her colleague Butch Wilmore returned to Earth on march 19, 2025 after an eight-month long space mission. sunita williams, along with her colleagues Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Nick Hague, will share their space mission experience in a post-flight news conference on april 1, 2025 at 12:00 pm IST (March 31 at 2:30 pm EDT). Actually, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore went for a week-long mission in june 2024 last year, but due to a technical fault in the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, they were stranded there and their mission extended to 9 months. They recently returned to Earth on march 19, 2025.
Mission key statistics
According to nasa, Williams and Wilmore traveled 121,347,491 miles during their mission, spent 286 days in space and completed 4,576 orbits around Earth. Hague and Gorbunov traveled 72,553,920 miles during their mission, spent 171 days in space and completed 2,736 orbits around Earth.
During their long stay aboard the ISS, Hague, Williams and Wilmore spent more than 900 hours doing research, conducting more than 150 different experiments. They investigated plant growth and development, explored the potential of stem cell technology to improve patient care on Earth and contributed to studies on how space affects the degradation of atmospheric materials.
900 hours of research work in ISS
During the mission, more than 900 hours of scientific experiments were carried out.
Research was carried out on the growth and development of plants.
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