Andrea Leinfelder
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Apple News Today
Their mission was eight days. They ended up in space for nine months.
After they launched, while they were traveling to the space station, they had some issues with their thrusters and there were some helium leaks.
Apple News Today
Their mission was eight days. They ended up in space for nine months.
They reached the station safely, but it was the thruster issues that really gave NASA pause.
Apple News Today
Their mission was eight days. They ended up in space for nine months.
A lot of people think that this is a rescue mission, they've been rescued or saved. NASA has had a plan since last summer, so it's not a rescue or a save. And the spacecraft they flew home in had actually been at the space station since September. So they were really just waiting on the replacements to come and get them.
Apple News Today
Their mission was eight days. They ended up in space for nine months.
Sunny Williams now has the record for total spacewalking time by a female astronaut. She, over her nine different spacewalks, has spent 62 hours and six minutes spacewalking. And I think that's just a cool factor that gets overlooked. And she wouldn't have gotten that record had she come home after a week.