“Indian-Origin Astronaut, Sunita Williams, Embarks on Her Third Space Journey Aboard NASA’s Boeing Starliner.”
NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams prepare for their flight at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Photo credit: NASA) © Provided by Asian News International (ANI) The upcoming flight will be Williams’ third space mission. According to NASA, the flight to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to take off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10 pm Indian Standard Time today. As part of the Commercial Crew Program, ‘Suni’ Williams and fellow astronaut Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore will be the first humans to board the Starliner spacecraft. United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket will launch the Starliner spacecraft into space. It will arrive at the ISS on Sunday, and the astronauts will conduct a series of tests for about a week. On June 10, the Starliner will undock from the ISS, re-enter Earth’s atmosphere, and make a parachute and airbag-assisted landing in the southwestern United States, as per NASA. If this mission is a success, NASA will ...