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Sunita Williams News: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams returned to Earth after 9 months. Landing in Florida from SpaceX's Dragon Capsule. He spent 286 days in space and about 4,576 times the Earth's …Read more

Sunita Williams returned to Earth after 9 months, know how the journey was?

Sunita williams return news: NASA astronaut Sunit Williams has returned to the earth. Sunita Williams, who was trapped in space captivity for 9 months, returned home. Apart from Sunita Williams and Buch Wilmore, two other astronauts have also returned to Earth. There is an atmosphere of celebration all over the world. The spacecraft of Allen Musk's company SpaceX, including the four astronauts, including Sunita Williams, was launched in the Telahasa waters of the Florida Panhandal. Within an hour, the astronaut came out of his spacecraft. Sunita Williams was clearly visible on her face. He shook hands and smiled looking at the cameras. After this, he was taken on a stretcher for medical checkup.

Sunita Williams and other astronauts went to space for just eight days. But luck had something else approved. He had to wait 9 months long to return to Earth. In June last year, Sunita Williams went to the International Space Station for just eight days. The Starlineer Spacecraft of Boeing was about to bring him back to the earth. So he had to wait so long. Elon Musk's company Aspx helped NASA to bring him. Sunita Williams made a safe land on Earth on the banks of the US Florida from SpaceX's Dragon Capsule.

How Sunita came to earth
Sunita Williams fell into the sea near the coast of Florida via dragon capsules at 3.27 am on Wednesday at 3.27 am Indian time. The process of landing on earth to earth is called Splashdown. Sunita Williams took about 17 hours to step from space to Earth. This journey was not so easy. Many things happened in the journey before Splashdown. For example, when Sunita Williams' dragon capsule was landing on the earth, it was 17000 miles per hour i.e. 27358 km per hour while entering the Earth's atmosphere. It was slowed down a few minutes later. Not only this, after entering the atmosphere, the temperature of the spacecraft reached about 2000 degrees Celsius. However, there was so much heat in the heat shield that nothing happened to Sunita Williams.

How much affair of earth
According to the news of the BBC, not only that, when the dragon capsules came into the atmosphere of the earth, everyone's life was stuck for some time. The reason was that the signal of the spacraft was left. Communication was broken. However, after 3-4 minutes, everything went well again and the connection was restored. When the right capsules came over the sea, the parachute opened for two or two in turn. After this, the team of NASA, already posted, brought the capsule into safety boat with the help of rope. Before coming to Earth, Sunita Williams spent 286 days in space. During this time, he revolved around the Earth 4,576 times and traveled 12 million miles by the time of Splashadown.

When and how stuck in space
Actually, Sunita Williams reached the space center through a Boeing test flight nine months ago. He was accompanied by a slaughter Wilmore. The two astronauts went to space on 5 June 2024 in Boeing's new Starlineer crew vehicle and were expected to return a week later. There were so many problems on the way to the space station that NASA eventually had to bring Starlineer back to Earth and delayed the return of astronauts. Buch Wilmore and Indian origin Sunita Williams said goodbye to the International Space Station along with two other astronauts.

Who is Sunita Williams, what is connection with India
Sunita Williams is an Indian -origin American astronaut. They are called space fairy. He has participated in many space missions. He was born on 19 September 1965 in Ohio, America. His father Deepak Pandya is of Indian origin and belongs to Ahmedabad in Gujarat. While his mother is of Slovenian origin. Sunita traveled into space twice in 2006 and 2012 and set a record of staying in space for 321 days. He also walked 7 times in space. She has a deep connection with India, and she considers India close to her heart. When she went to space, she took the idol of Ganesha with her.

Who in his family
Father: Deepak Pandya (was a doctor of Indian origin. He was from Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He died in 2020.)
Mother: Boney Pandya – American citizen of Slovenian origin. Are still alive.
Husband: Michael J. Williams-There is a police officer who has previously been a full-time police officer in Ohio.
Brother: Jai Thomas Pandya – They live in America.
Sister: Diana Pandya – She also lives in America.
Children- no

How much property of Sunita Williams
Sunita Williams has a total assets (net worth) of about $ 5 million (about Rs 40 crore). The annual salary will be around Rs 1.25 crore.

Education of Sunita Williams
Sunita Williams in 1983 from the US Naval Academy to Physical Science. He then received Master of Science (M.Sc) degree from Florida Institute of Technology at Engineering Management in 1995. He also completed Navy pilot and astronaut training.