India celebrates NASA astronaut’s return from space (VIDEO)
Residents of Sunita Williams’s ancestral village offered prayers and performed traditional rituals to celebrate her return to Earth Read Full Article at RT.com
American Sunita Williams, who is of Indian origin, had been stranded at the International Space Station for nine months
The ancestral home of American astronaut Sunita Williams, who is of Indian descent, erupted in celebration when she safely returned to Earth after a nine-month stint in space, according to local media.
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were stuck in orbit for nine months due to technical failures of Boeing’s Starliner capsule. They finally departed the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday, along with two other astronauts – NASA’s Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.
Hague and Gorbunov arrived at the space station in September to conduct experiments and perform spacewalks to carry out maintenance, according to NASA.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule containing the four astronauts splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Florida, after a 17-hour descent.
The unplanned welcome crew!
Crew-9 had some surprise visitors after splashing down this afternoon.
