India looks amazing from area, its own hero will soon be able to describe it from ISS: Sunita Williams

BENGALURU: In the primary press convention since her and Butch Wilmore’s return from the International Space Station (ISS), Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams shared her vivid descriptions of viewing India from ISS, expressing explicit marvel on the majestic Himalayan mountain vary.
“India is amazing… Every time we went over the Himalayas,” Williams enthused. “Butch got incredible pictures of the Himalayas—just amazing. You can see what I’ve described before as this ripple that happened obviously when the plates collided.”
Williams, who has Indian heritage by her father, painted a colourful image of the panorama as it “flows down [from himalayas] into India” with its “many, many colors.” She highlighted the distinctive fishing fleet off Mumbai’s coast that served as “a little bit of a beacon” saying their method to the subcontinent.
The veteran astronaut was equally impressed by India’s nocturnal magnificence, describing “the network of lights from the bigger cities going to the smaller cities” as “incredible to look at night as well as during the day.”

India’s own hero

Looking forward, Williams expressed enthusiasm about returning to her “father’s home country” and assembly with the Indian astronaut scheduled for the upcoming Axiom mission. “They will have a hometown hero there of their own who will be able to talk about how wonderful the International Space Station is from his perspective,” she famous.
She was referring to the Indian going to ISS by the Isro-Nasa joint effort. As on date, India’s Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is scheduled to go to ISS on Axiom Space’s Axiom-4 mission (Ax-4) later this yr, whereas his backup Group Captain Prashanth Nair, can be coaching with him as a part of the mission preparations.
Williams hopes to ultimately share her experiences with “as many people in India as possible,” calling it “a great country” and “another wonderful democracy that is trying to put their foot in space.” She added, “We’d love to be a part of that and help them along.”
As India prepares for its own human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan, Sunita’s response to how India looks from area, brings again recollections of Wing Commander (retd) Rakesh Sharma’s response in 1984. Sharma had invoked poet Muhammed Iqbal’s “Saare Jahaan Se Accha”.