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Boeing Starliner astronaut Suni Williams takes ISS command as 8-day mission turns into 8 months (video)
When assigned her original eight-day mission, she certainly didn't expect to taking over as commander of the International Space Station.
It's an unexpected addition to Williams' already unusual visit to space; she and NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore both launched on Starliner's Crewed Flight Test(CFT), a mission initially expected to last about a week. Kononenko, along with fellow cosmonaut Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson returned to Earth on Monday (Sep. 23) aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, touching down in Kazakhstan during morning hours. Receiving the microphone from Kononenko during Sunday's ceremony, Williams thanked her predecessor, joked about the unique nature of her mission's outcome as well as the station crew's ability to adapt, and voiced some personal goodbyes to the departing space explorers.
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