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Boeing Starliner’s Sunita Williams and fellow astronaut enter ISS

Updated on: 08 June,2024 07:43 AM IST  |  Houston
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Williams shared her gratitude to the family and friends who have been with them during the lead-up to the launch.

Boeing Starliner’s Sunita Williams and fellow astronaut enter ISS

Sunita Williams danced as she and Butch Willmore entered ISS. PIC/NASA

NASA’s Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams and her colleague Butch Wilmore have successfully docked Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) after overcoming new issues that cropped up en route to the orbiting laboratory.


Williams, 58, flew to space for the third time on Wednesday along with Wilmore, scripting history as the first members aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the ISS. Williams is the pilot for the flight test while Wilmore, 61, is the commander of the mission.


Boeing Starliner spacecraft successfully docked at the International Space Station at 1:34 pm on Thursday, about 26 hours after launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, NASA said in a statement.


Williams shared her gratitude to the family and friends who have been with them during the lead-up to the launch.

“We have another family up here, which is just awesome,” Williams said. “And we’re just happy as can be to be up in space, one in Starliner on an Atlas V, and then here at the ISS.”

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