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(From left to right) The Axiom-4 crew includes mission specialists Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski, commander Peggy Whitson, pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, and Tibor Kapu.

Shubhanshu Shukla’s Ax-4 mission delayed again, no new date yet

June 20, 2025, 07:21 AM - 3 min read

Axiom Mission 4, carrying ISRO astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, has been postponed yet again, with no fresh launch date confirmed. The delay marks the seventh such instance as NASA and partners assess ISS operations following recent repairs.

Residents of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams' ancestral village Jhulasan celebrate upon her safe return to earth from the International Space Station (ISS), in Mehsana district, Gujarat, early Wednesday morning.

Gujarat: Sunita Williams' ancestral village over the moon

March 19, 2025, 06:45 PM - 3 min read

As soon as a SpaceX capsule carrying Williams and astronaut Butch Wilmore splashed down near the Florida coast in the US after their nine-month stay at the International Space Station (ISS), the villagers erupted in joy, bursting firecrackers, dancing and chanting “Har Har Mahadev”.

NASA's astronauts headed towards Earth with SpaceX on Tues

March 18, 2025, 11:25 AM - 4 min read

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams bid farewell to the International Space Station — their home since last spring — departing aboard a SpaceX capsule alongside two other astronauts.

Sunita WIlliams and Butch Wilmore at the International Space Station.

Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore may return to Earth soon

February 12, 2025, 07:14 AM - 2 min read

The test pilots should have returned in June on Boeing's Starliner capsule after what should have been a weeklong flight demo. But the capsule had so much trouble getting to the space station that NASA decided to bring it back empty and reassigned the pair to SpaceX.

Sunita Williams (C) remains stranded in space as Donald Trump (L) assigns Elon Musk (R) the task of her return.

Trump asks Musk to rescue Williams from ISS, blames Biden for neglect

January 29, 2025, 12:57 PM - 2 min read

Former US President Donald Trump has asked Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring back astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded on the International Space Station since June 2024. Trump blamed the Biden administration for "abandoning" the astronauts, whose return is delayed until March.

Wilmore and Williams had initially planned to return by now; however, due to an extension of their mission, they will remain in orbit until February 2025.

How NASA astronauts exercise voting rights from space

November 6, 2024, 01:45 PM - 2 min read

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams cast their ballots in the U.S. presidential election from the International Space Station, using NASA’s encrypted voting process. Voting from space, a tradition since 1997, highlights that every vote counts—no matter the distance.

NASA alerts of 500-foot asteroid approaching Earth on Oct 28

October 27, 2024, 04:29 PM - 2 min read

Scientists see this as an opportunity to study the ancient celestial object, a cosmic relic that may reveal clues about our solar system’s origins.

Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore prepare for their historic space vote on the ISS.

Stranded Boeing astronauts to vote in US election from space

September 14, 2024, 01:07 PM - 3 min read

Williams and Wilmore, who have been aboard the ISS since June, plan to cast their ballots in the November 5 election, making use of provisions that allow astronauts to vote remotely.