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Sunita Williams arrives at her new home in
space
Tuesday July 17, 2012 07:13:15 PM,
Arun Kumar,
IANS
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Washington: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the record of
the longest space flight (195 days) for a woman, arrived at her
new home amid stars with an international cast of crew for another
four-month stay.
Williams along with Russian astronaut Yuri Malenchenko and
Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide docked their Soyuz TMA-05M
spacecraft to the Rassvet module of the International Space
Station at 10:21 a.m. India time Tuesday after two days in orbit,
NASA announced.
The hatches between the Soyuz and the Rassvet module opened
Tuesday at 12:53 p.m. India time when the trio entered the ISS,
the US space agency said.
Expedition 32 commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineers Joe
Acaba and Sergei Revin greeted their new crewmates. The six-member
crew conducted a welcoming ceremony with family and mission
officials then participated in a safety briefing.
The docking occured 37 years to the day after the first ever
docking of American and Russian spacecraft during the 1975
Apollo-Soyuz mission.
The Soyuz spacecraft carrying the trio blasted off from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8.40 am Sunday (8.10 am India
Time).
Daughter of an Indian American father from Gujarat and a Slovenian
mother, Williams holds three records for female space travellers:
longest spaceflight (195 days), number of spacewalks (four), and
total time spent on spacewalks (29 hours and 17 minutes) during
her first space journey in 2006.
She is the second woman of Indian heritage to have been selected
by NASA for a space mission after Kalpana Chawla and the second
astronaut of Slovenian heritage after Ronald M. Sega.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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