Thanksgiving Day celebration with NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, astronaut Bich Wilmore and 2 other colleagues, who have been on the Space Station for 6 months. Sunita Williams and other astronauts also posted a video of the Thanksgiving celebration.
In this video, we see all the astronauts taking out packages of packaged food. These packages contained smoked turkey, cranberry sauce and other food items. Today, all astronauts will take a break from their daily work. Along with this, he will also talk to his family members through video call.
Thanksgiving Day is celebrated as an annual holiday in many countries, including America and Canada. American President Abraham Lincoln declared this national holiday in 1863. Today, Macy’s Parade will take place in New York, America on Thanksgiving Day.
Sunita and Butch Wilmore stuck in space for 176 days
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were sent to the ISS on June 5 aboard Boeing’s new Starliner capsule. Today, it’s been 176 days since he was stuck in space.
The head of NASA had announced on August 24 that Sunita Williams and Butch would return to Earth after 6 months by February 2025. NASA had recognized that bringing astronauts in Boeing’s new Starliner capsule could be dangerous.
NASA had announced that Sunita and Butch Wilmore would return in February aboard the Dragon spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX company.
Why were Sunita and Wilmore sent to the space station?
Sunita and Bush Wilmore participated in the joint Boeing-NASA “Crew Flight Test Mission.” In this, Sunita was the pilot of the spaceship. Bush Wilmore, who accompanied him, was the commander of this mission. Both were due to return to Earth after an 8-day stay on the International Space Station (ISS).
At the time of the launch, Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space and Security, called it a good start to a new era of space research. The main objective of this mission was to prove the spacecraft’s ability to take and return astronauts to the space station.
The astronauts also had to carry out research and numerous experiments on the space station in 8 days. Sunita and Wilmore are the first astronauts sent into space using the Atlas-V rocket. During this mission, he also had to pilot the spacecraft manually. Many types of objectives related to the flight test also needed to be completed.