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Sunita Willams returns from space with new
record
Monday November 19, 2012 05:37:12 PM,
Arun Kumar, IANS
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Washington: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams has returned to earth
after 127 days in space with a new record under her belt - the
most spacewalking time by a female at 50 hours and 40 minutes over
seven career excursions.
Williams, who was commander of Expedition 33 on the International
Space Station returned home with two space-going colleagues aboard
a Russian Soyuz capsule that landed at 8:56 p.m. Sunday night
northeast of Arkalyk in the steppes of Kazakhstan, according to US
space agency NASA.
Williams has logged 322 days during two space flights making her
second on the list of most experienced US female astronauts. She
also holds the record of longest spaceflight (195 days) for female
space travellers.
Daughter of an Indian-American father from Gujarat and a Slovenian
mother, Williams is the second woman of Indian origin to have been
selected by NASA for a space mission after Kalpana Chawla and the
second astronaut of Slovenian heritage after Ronald M. Sega.
Williams, Aki Hoshide of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency
and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko spent 125 of their 127 days
in space circling Earth onboard the ISS. The trio blasted off from
the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 15.
While on the outpost, they welcomed SpaceX's Dragon capsule making
its first official cargo delivery, which included fresh apples and
chocolate-vanilla swirl ice cream.
Williams and Hoshide also carried out two spacewalks.
Kevin Ford, the new ISS commander and his crewmates-Russian
cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin-will run the outpost
as they await the arrival of three more crew members, including
American Tom Marshburn, in December.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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