Astronauts depend on oxygen tanks while in space, with backup systems in place to prevent emergencies. In the event of an oxygen supply failure, emergency tanks and portable cylinders provide a ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally returned to Earth earlier this week after their problem-plagued Boeing Starliner departed the International Space Station empty last year. The pair of NASA ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are plagued by persistent rashes, unusual allergies and a variety of infections, including fungi, cold sores and shingles. Researchers now think ...

Early on March 19 (IST), a SpaceX capsule bearing astronauts Sunita Williams, Barry Wilmore, Aleksandr Gorbunov, and Nick Hague splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. The four were returning from ...

My friend, a most wonderful sentimentalist, awoke at 5am in India on March 19 and checked her phone and wept after watching a video. Parachutes opened like flowers, a capsule descended, dolphins ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are returning to Earth after an unexpected nine-month stay on the ISS. Their mission extended due to technical issues with Boeing's Starliner ...

It's been 286 days since astronauts Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore have felt the pull of Earth's gravity. Gravity is really, really tough, tough, learning to live with it, but also without it.

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NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have finally returned after being stranded on board the International Space Station for nine months. The pair became stuck in June after Boeing's ...

Stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams successfully undocked from the International Space Station at 1:05 a.m. Tuesday and began their long-awaited journey back home after more ...