Astronaut Sunita Williams: Private jets will continue to operate in manned missions to the space station, investments, research, lunar-Mars missions. America's 30-year space shuttle era ended in 2011. Russia is also selling tourist tickets. In this background, two private space jets are ready to reach space. One of them is the Crew Dragon capsule by SpaceX, the X and Tesla owner Elon Musk. Falcon rockets are already traveling to the space station. Carrying cargo and astronauts.
Boeing too..
Boeing, one of the world's largest aero space companies, has recently manufactured a spacecraft named CST-100 Starline. It is making its debut with a manned journey on May 6. Another feature is that Indian-origin American astronaut Sunita Williams is going to go into space for the third time through this spacecraft.
Sunita hat trick..
Sunita Williams.. Indian, American Astronaut. Nickname is Suni. After a gap of 11 years, at the age of 58, he is going to go to Rhodes for the third time. American Navy Captain (Retired) Sunitha's experience is her strength. She was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998. Sunita's father is Indian American Deepak Pandyadi from Mumbai. Mother Arsalyn Bonnie is Slovenian-American. Sunita was born in 1965 in America.
Into space on 6.
Sunita will depart for the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:34 pm (India time) on 6th of this month on a Boeing Starliner spacecraft carrying a United Launch Alliance rocket Atlas-5 payload. NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore will also participate in the expedition. They will stay in ISS for a week. Sunita went to ISS for the first time on December 9, 2006. 2007, spent in Rhodes till June 22. She has set a record as the female astronaut who has spacewalked four times. The second time was in 2012, from July 13, 127 days were spent in the ISS. Spacewalked three times. A total of 50 hours and 40 minutes of spacewalk was spent in both missions.
