Mint Primer | Sunita Williams’ return: Is space travel so tricky?

In one of the most politicized and closely-followed space missions, Sunita Williams, an astronaut of Indian descent, spent 286 days in space, rather than the planned eight. Weren’t space missions meant to get easier with time? The answer’s more nuanced than is apparent.

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