Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita 'Suni' Williams were originally scheduled for an eight-day mission, but the Nasa astronauts remained aboard the International Space Station for nearly nine months ...

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While stranded, Wilmore and Williams will have been providing vital data to help measure the impacts of prolonged stays – every bladder and bowel movement they had will have been weighed and checked ...

During the nine months that NASA's stranded astronauts have spent in space, their bodies endured low gravity, space radiation, isolation and more. Here are all the signs of their ill-health.

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Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been at the International Space Station since June after technical issues with their ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Nick Hague are scheduled for splashdown on March 19 at 3.27am IST. Post-landing, they will face ch ...

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Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams are on their way back to Earth after nearly nine months in space and will soon be readjusting to life with gravity.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are returning to Earth after a prolonged mission on the ISS, initially ...

NASA astronauts including Sunita have undocked from the ISS and are expected to splash down off the Florida coast around 5.57 ...