8 interesting stats on NASA astronauts' return: Sunita Williams spent 286 days, travelled 121,347,491 miles
Posted on: Mar 19, 2025 08:42 IST | Posted by: Livemint
The subject astronautics and blank organisation (NASA) shared some "interesting" statistics on Crew-9's take back to Earth. NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov landed on Earth around 3:30 am IST on Wednesday, March 19. Their much-awaited return had been a spectacle for the world.
As three NASA astronauts and one cosmonaut splashed down off Florida's coast, the US space agency shared some interesting facts about the SpaceX Crew-9 mission. Here's what numbers say:
1. Sunita Williams logged the second-most time in space by a US astronaut.
2. Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore traveled 121,347,491 miles during their mission, spent 286 days in space, and completed 4,576 orbits around Earth.
3. Although Wilmore and Williams' 286-day stay exceeds the typical six-month ISS rotation, it ranks only sixth among US records for single-mission duration.
4. Meanwhile, Hague and Gorbunov traveled 72,553,920 miles during their mission, spent 171 days in space, and completed 2,736 orbits around Earth.
5. Sunita Williams logged 608 days in space over her three flights, Butch Wilmore logged 464 days in space over his three flights, and Hague logged 374 days in space over his two missions. The Crew-9 mission was the first spaceflight for Gorbunov.
6. Crew-9 conducted more than 150 unique scientific experiments and technology demonstrations between them, with over 900 hours of research.
7. Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams saw eight different visiting vehicle from the ISS.
8. Sunita Williams conducted two spacewalks; Butch Wilmore and Nick Hague conducted one each. NASA astronaut Sunita Williams logged 62 hours and 6 minutes of spacewalking on January 30, surpassing the record for the most time spent in the vacuum of space by a woman.
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