{"id":253330,"date":"2024-09-15T09:08:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T03:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=253330"},"modified":"2024-09-14T15:10:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T09:40:31","slug":"8-months-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/8-months-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"8 months in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The suspense continues. We do not know when she will return to Earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She is stuck in the space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams, who is stuck on the International Space Station (ISS), today said it was her &#8220;happy place&#8221; and that she &#8220;loves&#8221; being up there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Williams and her fellow NASA colleague Butch Wilmore on June 5 took off aboard the Boeing&#8217;s Starliner as part of the vessel&#8217;s first crewed mission, in what was originally meant to be eight days in orbit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their stay, however, has been stretched to eight months after the Starliner ran into several technical issues and returned to Earth without them last week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;That&#8217;s how things go in this business,&#8221; Sunita Williams said in a video press conference on being stuck in the space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Williams said the transition to station life was &#8220;not that hard&#8221; since both astronauts had previous stints there. She is hopeful of coming back to the earth soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspense continues. We do not know when she will return to Earth. She is stuck in the space. Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams, who is stuck on the International Space Station (ISS), today said it was her &#8220;happy place&#8221; and that she &#8220;loves&#8221; being up there. Williams and her fellow NASA colleague Butch Wilmore on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":253332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[115399,8182,114177],"class_list":["post-253330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-8-months-in-space","tag-space","tag-sunitha-williams"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sunitha.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253333,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253330\/revisions\/253333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}