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Boeing Starliner astronaut Suni Williams takes ISS command as 8-day mission turns into 8 months (video)

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NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams has just been handed the keys to the International Space Station .

During a "change of command" ceremony, Russian cosmonaut Olog Kononenko passed leadership of ISS Expedition 71 over to Williams .

The move marks a milestone in Williams ' eight-month-long mission that was originally supposed to last eight days .

The pair is slated to return to Earth in February 2025 aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule.

Space.com 's Josh Dinner is a writer and photographer with a passion for science and space exploration.

He also enjoys building 1:144 scale models of rockets and human-flown spacecraft.

Dinner has been working the space beat since 2016 and has covered the evolution of commercial spaceflight partnerships.

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