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Astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams inside the International Space Station's Harmony module, June 2024. (NASA/AP) When NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore arrived at the ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were barely known outside space circles when they strapped in for what was supposed to be a quick test flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule last June. Nine months later ...

Most people never think twice about doing laundry, unless they are in space. While life aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is full of scientific marvels, one strange reality has recently ...

The duration of their time in space was unexpectedly long after launching on June 5, 2024, with the mission to stay on the ISS for nearly a week. Due to issues with the Boeing Starliner flight to the ...

HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- Astronauts aboard the International Space Station reached out to students and alumni of the Harlem Link Charter School in Manhattan in an Earth to space call Friday. The ...

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. Our ...

Forget all the scientific advances, the most popular question asked of astronauts is much more primal: How do you use the restroom? Suction is needed to counteract the lack of gravity, and it's not ...

It's safe to say that most of us have seen lightning here on Earth plenty of times – some of us have even been struck by it. But the natural phenomenon is one all but a few select individuals will ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally returned to Earth after spending a total of 286 days in space MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty It was a momentous homecoming for NASA ...

Feb. 27, 2012 — -- The shrimp cocktail on the space shuttle must really have been something. On a two-week flight in 2006, astronaut Mark Polansky asked to have it on his menu every day. For ...