Saare Jahaan sey Acha!

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.

“I have the opportunity to look at India a
number of times from the spacecraft and it looks beautiful,” she said
during a 10-odd-minute chat over satellite phone connected to the
American Center in Delhi.

“It’s a colourful country. Greenery and red mountains were great,” 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.

News Courtesy : CNN IBN

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