BITM to livestream return of Shux
Shukla and three crew members lifted off from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on June 25 and docked to the International Space Station on June 26. Four months ago, Sunita Williams made a splashdown off the Florida coast in the Atlantic Ocean after the SpaceX Crew-9 capsule retrieved her and Butch Wilmore from the ISS, where she spent 278 days more than originally scheduled. BITM had livestreamed that event as well. tnn
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