Tuesday, December 4, 2007

NASA astronaut's record breaking feats

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We had spoken about Sunita Williams's visit to India but its worth mentioning her record breaking feat as well.
She holds 3 distinct records for female space travelers, they include:
longest space flight - 195 days
number of spacewalks - four
total time spend on spacewalks - 29 hours 17 minutes

During her space odyssey some her possessions that made news included some samosas, the Bhagavad Geeta and a small Ganesha idol.

On April 16 this year Ms. Williams took part in the Boston Marathon from space and she completed it in 4 hours and 24 hours.
She became the first astronaut to run a marathon in orbit.

Here's fodder for some more discussion on the NASA astronaut.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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