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India doing excellent in space programmes:
Sunita Williams
Monday April 01, 2013 06:40:56 PM,
Richa Sharma, IANS
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New Delhi:
Lauding Indian space agency ISRO, US astronaut Sunita Williams
Monday said it was doing an excellent job and wished that more
Indian American women follow her and the late Kalpana Chawla into
space.
Williams, 47, who holds the world record for the most spacewalk
time - 50 hours 40 minutes - by a female astronaut, is in India on
a week-long trip.
"India is doing excellent in space programme and has a huge
resource of people. ISRO (India Space Research organisation) is
doing a great job," Williams told IANS.
She also praised India's lunar mission (Chandrayaan-1 and 2) and
the Mars exploration mission schedule for later this year.
India and the US have agreed to cooperate on future missions to
the Moon and Mars after successful collaboration in Chandrayaan-1
lunar mission.
Chandrayaan-1, which carried two National Aeronautical and Space
Administration (NASA) instruments, successfully found water
particles on the Moon's soil with the help of a US instrument.
Williams also wished for India to produce more astronauts like
Kalpana Chawla - the first Indian-born woman to go into space.
"I hope of another Kalpana Chawla going there (space)," said the
US Navy captain, clad in a blue flight suit of the kind astronauts
wear in space. Chawla, who hailed from Karnal in Haryana, was
killed in 2003 when the space shuttle Columbia exploded on
re-entry.
Williams, whose father is from Mehsana in Gujarat and who was born
in the US, said she was never nervous or afraid after the Columbia
explosion.
The astronaut said she would love to be part of the next space
mission.
"I would love to be on the next spacecraft for the next mission to
space and give my expertise to the experiments being done," added
Williams, who also holds the record for the longest spaceflight
time by a female astronaut - 322 days in space on two missions.
Her India trip started in New Delhi Monday, where she interacted
with students at the National Science Centre.
During the week she will be interacting with students in Kolkata,
Mumbai and Gujarat.
Williams last visited India in October 2007, when she gave a talk
at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
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