Touched Down

by Adarsh Verma    June 29, 2007

Sunita Williams came back on Earth after setting a record of staying in space for 195 days. The space craft Atlantis landed safely on 23 June 07, with all the 7 Astronauts including Sunita. Sunita is of Indian origin, her father(Deepak Pandya) is from Gujrat (a western state of India) and her Husband is American.  

Because of to terrible weather in Florida where Atlantis had to land, it finally touched down in California at the Edwards Air force Station. After traveling 9.4 million KM of flight.

It’s a grand feeling of bearing in mind my daughter back on Earth with rest of the 6 astronauts, Mr pandya said, they were all keenly waiting for the landing with rest of the family members and a guest relative from India who specially came all the way from India to see this once in a life time moment. Bonnie sunita’s mother and Dina her sister were praying for a safe landing of Sunita .The first Indian origin astronaut Kalpana Chawla was killed in the Colombia failure in 2003 with other 6 astronauts when it was trying to touch down.

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