As she prepared to address her sessions at the Kerala Literature Festival in Kozhikode, Sunita Williams reminisced about the nine months she spent aboard the International Space Station.
Sunita Williams completed nine spacewalks, totalling 62 hours and 6 minutes, ranking as the most spacewalk time by a woman. She was also the first person to run a marathon in space.
NASA’s Crew-11 astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Finke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov arrived at the ISS in August 2025 for a six-month mission.
Researchers say this ancient “space gum,” once soft and flexible but now hardened, may have provided some of the chemical precursors needed for life to emerge on Earth.
With a major US election every two years, Nasa’s direction hasn’t been stable enough to manage long-term planning. It's hard to see problems easing with the US Artemis lunar programme.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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