New Delhi, Jan. 30 -- The American Space agency NASA's two astronauts - Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stuck at the International Space Station (ISS) since last year, did their first spacewalk together.

As per official sources at NASA, Sunita and Butch did the spacewalk to maintain the space station's hardware and collect samples. The spacewalk started at 8 am ET (1300 UTC) and will go for about 6.5 hours.

Sunita Williams along with Butch Willmore became the first to ride the faulty Starliner, developed by Boeing in June 2024. What began as an eight-day sojourn on the ISS has extended to 238 days now in space for the astronaut duo.

They were earlier expected to return in February, but it was delayed by another month. ...