Williams will be in rehab for at least 45 days, depending on her overall health condition, after which both her parents will join her in Houston, where she has been living since 1998 after being selected as astronaut by NASA.
The mission included four space walks and the installation of a two-tonne addition to the International Space Station.
Discovery carries enough supplies to stay in orbit till Saturday, but NASA flight rules call for reserving that day in case of an unanticipated orbiter systems glitch or malfunction.
Sunita, who arrived at the station with the STS-116 mission, replaced European Space Agency Astronaut Thomas Reiter on the Expedition 14 crew at midnight on December 12.
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams is all set for an unscheduled fourth spacewalk along with other members of the Discovery crew on Monday to retract the P6 port solar array on the International Space Station.
Pollution levels were inching towards 'severe plus emergency' category due to a change in wind direction and rampant stubble burning in neighbouring states
The launch of India's Mars Orbiter Mission has been delayed by almost a week and a decision on the new date would be taken on October 22, the Indian Space Research Organisation said on Saturday. The launch window for the MOM mission was earlier slated from October 28 to November 19 and a decision on the launch date was to be taken on Saturday.
NASA officials are now looking at ways to make her stay in space easier, given the additional physical and psychological pressures.
Welcome to the family! Scientists using NASA's Kepler spacecraft have confirmed at least eight new roughly Earth-sized planets sitting in the habitable zones of their host stars -- two of which rival the most 'Earth-like' planets found to date.
The ISS is expecting heavy traffic, something similar to rush hour.\n\n
"It is a pretty emotional event for me to stay six months in space," Williams said. NASA telecast the undocking of Atlantis from the ISS as it circled around the station to collect video and imagery of the station.
As we eagerly wait to see what 'farq' it makes when it hits the screens on June 28, Sukanya Verma looks at the few occasions caste came up in Hindi movies.
Photographs from moments that shaped the world last week.
The camera has already taken hundreds of images of the Martian surface and the instrument will obtain about 5000 for every year till 2010.
When the universe is your workspace, the sky is the limit, and there's no such thing as a glass ceiling. Divia Thani Daswani meets the women behind Mangalyaan
'ISRO provides a very positive atmosphere. What matters here is your talent, not your gender,' says Ritu Karidhal, Deputy Operations Director, India's Mars orbital mission, Mangalyaan. A fascinating excerpt from Minnie Vaid's Those Magnificent Women And Their Flying Machines, Isro's Mission To Mars.
Did you blink? There was a total eclipse of the moon on Saturday -- and it was an unusually short one.
For Nathani, the NASA certificate acknowledging his participation is a moment to cherish as he once had ambition to join NASA.
While the Mars mission got wide praise, there were voices which questioned the need for spending Rs 450-500 crore on it when the country is facing hunger and poverty.
I would like to have my own special effects unit in place
Interstellar is an incredible ride, a film that will scare and stupefy and drop jaws and make us weep, the kind of film that makes our hearts thump against our ribs for forty straight-minutes and makes us believe in the glory of the movies.
With the spacecraft's safe landing, NASA's mission came to a happy ending unlike the 2003 Columbia disaster in which India-born Kalpana Chawla was killed along with her six colleagues aboard the shuttle
Thirty-six years to the day since Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon, Google Inc. extended its mapping service to cover the lunar surface.
But, NASA said it could fix the problem in time for Wednesday's launch.
NASA's Mars rover Spirit has found concentrated salt below the surface of the Red Planet, offering more evidence that water once existed on Mars.
Indian Space Research Organisation on Tuesday paid tributes to iconic cartoonist R K Laxman by posting online his cartoon 'common man' reaching Mars, the last of his works, which he had sent to the space agency after the success of the historic Mars Mission.
The Rs 978 crore mission, which has been rescheduled for Monday after scientists corrected the glitch in the rocket, will be launched at 2.43 p.m from the second launchpad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, over 100 km from Chennai.
Marketers are required to be more Sisyphus than The Vitruvian Man, says Bharat Bambawale.
Rediff readers wrote emotionally about the passing of Dr Abdul Kalam while others sent in pictures of chance meetings with this humble physicist who was always available with an easy smile and some gentle words.
It plans to send 6 cosmonauts though they will not land on the Red Planet, only orbit it.
NASA delayed the touchdown initially by 90 minutes and later put it off till tomorrow as low clouds hovered over the space center
Forgot the major events that shaped the news last week? Here's a quick recap of the incidents of the previous week.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances