NASA astronaut Suni Williams breaks spacewalk record

Sweeney Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore were stuck in space for 234 days due to a technical malfunction of the Boeing capsule that brought them to the station, El.kz cites unn.ua.

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams has set a new women's space record: she has officially become the woman who has spent the longest time outside the International Space Station, breaking the record at 60 hours and 21 minutes. The previous record holder was Peggy Whitson, who spent 60 hours and 21 minutes on field missions.

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A mission on the International Space Station (ISS) lasting only one week has exceeded 234 days due to technical complications. Astronauts Suni Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore had been on the station for many months due to problems with a Boeing capsule that returned to Earth without its passengers.

On January 30, Sunita Williams, along with Butch Wilmore, managed to remove a faulty radio communication unit outside the International Space Station (ISS). According to NASA, this was the 274th spacewalk to service the International Space Station since 1998.

Both professionals will have to wait until next March to return home.

“I've been here for a long time, and now I was trying to remember what it was like to walk. I didn't walk. I didn't sit. I didn't lie down,” said Suni Williams via a video call with students from Needham High School in Massachusetts.

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