Indian origin astronaut Sunita Williams (Sunita Williams) is once again going to fly in space. He will fly into space on Saturday in NASA's 'Starliner' which will take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10pm tonight.
Earlier, the joint mission of the American space agency NASA and the aircraft manufacturer Boeing had encountered some problems. His flight was canceled on May 7 due to a technical fault with the spacecraft's oxygen valve. About the mission, US space agency NASA said that if all goes well, Starliner will dock with the International Space Station, after which Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will remain on the station with their colleagues for about a week to test the Starliner spacecraft and its subsystems.
According to NASA, the flight to the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) will take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida today at 10 pm IST. Williams and fellow NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore will be the first humans to fly aboard the Starliner spacecraft as part of the US space agency's commercial crew program.
The Starliner spacecraft will be launched into space on an Atlas 5 rocket from rocket company United Launch Alliance (ULA). It will dock with the ISS on Sunday and the astronauts will carry out various tests on the ISS for about a week. Starliner will then separate from the ISS and return to Earth's atmosphere and land on June 10 in the southwestern United States using a parachute and airbag, NASA said.
If the mission is successful, NASA will begin the final process of certifying the Starliner and its systems for crew rotation missions to the International Space Station. The Starliner capsule will carry a mix of four astronauts, crew and cargo to low Earth orbit for a NASA mission.
Let us tell you that Sunita Williams has spent a record 322 days in space and holds the record of being the female scientist who has spacewalked for the longest number of hours. Williams first went into space on 9 December 2006 and remained in space until 22 June 2007. Sunita Williams spacewalked four times for a record 29 hours and 17 minutes. After this, Sunita Williams went on a second space journey on 14 July 2012 and remained in space until 18 November 2012.
