Thursday, June 21, 2007

Sunita Williams to be back tomorrow.


Space travel by Indians is achieving new standards. Sunita Williams, an Indian women astronaut has set up record for being the first woman staying in space for such a long time. You see standard of breaking records is becoming tougher by the day. First, it used to be a record to reach space, then it was a record of a women reaching space followed by record of time spent in space. Boarded on Atlantis, space shuttle launched by NASA, Sunita is a space engineer of Indian origin born and brought up in the US. Due to some problem in the thermal blanket of the space shuttle, her return has been delayed by a few days. Bad weather conditions in Florida where the shuttle will be back on Earth mat further delay her arrival.
Day is not far away when space tourism will become a common thing and there will be different space stations and launchpads like airports or railway stations.

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