Claim:
The photos show that NASA astronaut Sunita Suni Williams returned to Earth with dark hair, even though she was gray while in space.
Evaluation:
Evaluation: Miscellaneous
Context:
The photos seemed to show Williams after her return to the ground were taken in June 2024, before her space mission.
After NASA astronaut Sunita Suni Williams returned to Earth on March 18, 2025. – After an unexpectedly long stay at the International Space Station – have spread rumors that her hair has grown gray while she was orbit But that she had dark hair until she scattered Along the coast of Florida.
At X, users posted photos of Williams, who had been on the ISS for nine months after her capsule did not function, claiming that they were before and after their shots from returning from space. A man speculates with this Gravity had affected her hair colorS
Other Covered images on the side by reading a text with a meme: “When you spend 9 months, crashed into space and return with tan and your hair do it.” The post implied that Williams was not really in space: “nine months in” Zero gravity “, no barbers, no showers … But her gray hair is magically transformed back to a rich, dark brown – No roots, no touch, just pure cosmic alchemy. … It must be this exclusive package for salon and spa – only available in Studio Nasa! “
(X user @tntjohn1717)
On Tiktok a video (archived) claims that the change was given to those who “who always doubted” that the astronaut was in space reasons to believe that it was “hiding in some basis for the photos all the time.”
Williams’ images with dark hair, shared online, were real pictures, not the result of manipulation or artificial intelligence. However, they were taken before her mission in the ISS; Therefore, we rated this statement as different.
Several social media publications included photos of Williams in Son Spasques. French international news agency Agance France-Presse has the rights to the photo included in the X publication above. It says that photographer Miguel J. Rodriguez Carilo made the image on June 5, 2024, before Williams boarded the Boeing Starlineer spacecraft in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Getty Images possesses the rights to the Williams photo with dark hair included in the post below. The Getty Image Image inscription states that it was made in Cape Canaveral on June 1st – the date of canceled launch of the spacecraftS
(X User @TRUTHACHE68)
(Getty Images)
Williams’ images with gray hair were made while it was in space. The image included in the post below was a screenshot of a video taken on board the ISS.
(X user @tntjohn1717)
Associated Press and British News Network Sky News has posted NASA’s YouTube videos, which documented Williams and others, welcoming astronauts from Spacex Crew-10, while mooring at the International Space Station. The shots that match the screenshot can be seen in the AP video at 3:14:20 and Sky News video at 00:09.
(Sky News)
NASA published a portrait of Williams and its astronauts in space, taken on February 19, 2025, which further confirms that her gray hair grew while on board the ISS.
Getty Images also possesses the rights to an image seen below, which shows Williams after she returned to Earth on March 18 and made it clear that she had gray hair.
(Getty Images)
Snops has considered other claims about NASA, including rumor that former President Joe Biden has left Williams and his colleague Barry “Butch” Wilmore of the ISS for political profit and the truth behind the image that Saturn is wanted in “Cosmic Moments of Cassini.”
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Associated Press. “Live: Watch Nasa Docking to International Space Station.” YouTubeMarch 16, 2025, www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlza2no0qgg. Access to March 20, 2025
Boeing. “The Boeing Starliner spacecraft ends the successful launch.” Boeing.comJune 5, 2024, Investors.boeing.com/investors/news/press-relase-details/2024/Boeing-starliner Spacecraft-successful-launch/Default.Aspx. Access to March 20, 2025
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Getty images. Boeing Starliner is preparing to launch a piloted test flight to the International Space StationJune 1, 2024, www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/s-oeing-crew-light-test-pilot-suni-williams-grete-news-photo/2155596977?adppop. Access to March 20, 2025
—. Boeing Starliner is preparing to launch a piloted test flight to the International Space StationJune 5, 2024, www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/s-oeing-crew-light-Test-Commander-butch-wilmore- and pilot-foto/2156180691?adppoppp Access to March 20, 2025
—. Boeing Starliner is preparing to launch a piloted test flight to the International Space StationJune 5, 2024, www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/s-oeing-crew-light-Test-Commander-butch-wilmore-nd-pilot-foto/2156181713?adppop. Access to March 20, 2025
—. Boeing Starliner is preparing to launch a piloted test flight to the International Space StationJune 5, 2024, www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/s-oeing-crew-light-Test-Commander-butch-wilmore- and pilot-foto/2156180681?adppop Access to March 20, 2025
—. Boeing Starliner is preparing to launch a piloted test flight to the International Space StationJune 5, 2024, www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/s-oeing-crew-light-test-test-commander-butch-wilmore- and pilot-foto/2156178383?adppop Access to March 20, 2025
—. NASA astronauts return to Earth after a 9-month delayMarch 18, 2024, www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/astronaut-suni-williams-is-s-helped-of-fe-a-pacex- ragon-foto/2205269759 Access to March 20, 2025
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