The American astronaut Suni Williams, who was trapped on the International Space Station for more than nine months in 2024 and early 2025, made a stop at the Maine Savings Amphitheater last night.
Williams, a Massachusetts native whose full first name is Sunita, was seen at the Bangor Waterfront on the same night that Old Dominion played a show, according to the Maine Savings Amphitheater Facebook page.
Williams and Butch Wilmore became the first people and the first astronauts to strap into a Boeing Starliner capsule and be launched into space on June 5, 2024. Their trip to the space station was supposed to be around a week long. Instead, it stretched over nine months.
The duo of astronauts became stuck at the International Space Station after NASA grew concerned that it would be dangerous to travel back to Earth on the Starliner. The craft experienced helium leaks, thruster failures, and scientists raised concerns about thruster performance.
The astronauts eventually returned to Earth on March 18. The pair of space travelers needed months of physical therapy to become re-accustomed to the gravity on Earth, Wilmore told Reuters in June.
