Watch| Sunita Williams Returns to Earth After Over Nine Months in Space
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Williams and her companion astronaut, Butch Wilmore, said goodbye to the ISS, their home since last June, and departed on a SpaceX capsule with two other astronauts.
Watch| NASA-SpaceX Mission Launched to Bring Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore Back to Earth
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon spacecraft launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03 p.m. ET on Friday (4:33 a.m. IST on Saturday).
NASA-SpaceX Delays Falcon 9 Mission to Bring Back Stranded Astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore Over Technical Issue
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Originally set for today's liftoff from Florida's NASA Kennedy Space Center, the mission was scrubbed fewer than an hour before liftoff when a hydraulic problem struck a ground support clamp arm attached to the rocket.
Watch| SpaceX Faces Another Setback as Starship Fails Again, Scattering Debris Over Bahamas
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​​​​​​​The upper-stage vehicle started spinning out of control before communication was lost, with debris being sighted plummeting over Florida and the Bahamas.
NASA Announces Early Return for Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore to Earth
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Last month, former U.S. President Donald Trump urged Elon Musk to ensure the swift return of Sunita and Butch, emphasizing the need to bring them back "as soon as possible."
Elon Musk Jokes That DOGE Has a 120-Hour Workweek, Shifting Focus from Narayana Murthy
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Very few in the bureaucracy actually work the weekend so it's kind of like when the opposing team just leaves for 2 days!" he remarked in another posting on X in which he identified working weekends as a "superpower".
Trump Nominates Jared Isaacman to Lead NASA
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Trump, who announced his third run for the presidency on X Wednesday, said that Isaacman had led Shift4 for 25 years and co-founded Draken International, a defence aerospace company he also ran as CEO, where for over a decade, it helped the US Department of Defence and its allies.
Watch | SpaceX Successfully Completes Starship's 6th Test Flight Despite Booster Catch Failure
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The 400-foot-tall Starship rocket along with the Heavy booster -- the world's largest and most powerful rocket -- launched the flight after 8 a.m. EDT (5:30 pm IST) from its Starbase facility near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas.
SpaceX Announces Starship's Sixth Test Flight Set for November 18
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For its fifth test flight in October, the Super Heavy booster successfully returned to the launch site and was caught by the "chopstick arms" and catch tower at Starbase.
Musk's SpaceX Secures $733 Million Launch Contract from US Space Force
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SpaceX Launch Service Task Orders worth a total $733,566,001 in total have been awarded to SpaceX by the US Space Force's Space Systems Command under a "National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1" contract.
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