01-11-2007, 11:20 PM
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<b>Sunita Williams' space view</b>
IANS
HAIR'S TO GRAVITY: The astronaut gave an interview from the International Space Station.
New Delhi: India looks beautiful from space, Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams, part of the crew aboard International Space Station (ISS), said Wednesday in a chat.
Speaking to about 60 students, teachers and media persons and Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to walk in space, Williams was all praise for India.
<b>"I have the opportunity to look at India a number of times from the spacecraft and it looks beautiful," </b>she said during a 10-odd-minute chat over satellite phone connected to the American Center in Delhi.
<b>"It's a colourful country. Greenery and red mountains were great,"</b> a seemingly anxious Williams added.
Thrilled at the Indian space scientists' "textbook" launch Wednesday of four satellites from an indigenous launch vehicle for the first time, she said: "Congratulations. It's a great achievement."
Williams, a graduate of the US Naval Academy, is one of the only six women NASA has put in space since 1965. Her father is an Indian-born doctor and her mother a homemaker of the Yugoslav descent.
Williams, for her space trip, has taken along with her a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a small idol of Lord Ganesh and a letter written in Hindi by her father Deepak Pandya besides some samosas in a special container. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Sunita Williams' space view</b>
IANS
HAIR'S TO GRAVITY: The astronaut gave an interview from the International Space Station.
New Delhi: India looks beautiful from space, Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams, part of the crew aboard International Space Station (ISS), said Wednesday in a chat.
Speaking to about 60 students, teachers and media persons and Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to walk in space, Williams was all praise for India.
<b>"I have the opportunity to look at India a number of times from the spacecraft and it looks beautiful," </b>she said during a 10-odd-minute chat over satellite phone connected to the American Center in Delhi.
<b>"It's a colourful country. Greenery and red mountains were great,"</b> a seemingly anxious Williams added.
Thrilled at the Indian space scientists' "textbook" launch Wednesday of four satellites from an indigenous launch vehicle for the first time, she said: "Congratulations. It's a great achievement."
Williams, a graduate of the US Naval Academy, is one of the only six women NASA has put in space since 1965. Her father is an Indian-born doctor and her mother a homemaker of the Yugoslav descent.
Williams, for her space trip, has taken along with her a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a small idol of Lord Ganesh and a letter written in Hindi by her father Deepak Pandya besides some samosas in a special container. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->