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Would love to be part of India team to moon:Sunita
Sunitha Williams, India-American astronaut, would love to be part of the Indian team when an international mission is mounted to go to the moon. “Of course, I would like to be part of it,” she declared, when she was asked whether she would like to be part of the Indian manned mission to the moon. But she politely remined the new spersons that she was in the U.S military and that she was a U.S astronaut.
“I hope that Indian is planning to go the moon along with international participation. Then i would definitely like to be part of that,” she said, addressing a press conference towards the close of the five day international Astronautical Congress here on Friday. There were other folks out there, who are looking to go as well. I would not want to take that opportunity away from the first man or woman from India who goes into space. I would like to see that from India,’ she said.
There were a number of astronauts who wanted to make people understand how, from above in space, the planet earth was ” a borderless village and we all can live together.”
When she had to return to the earth, she was ” a little saddened that i was leaving space, which was such a wonderful place to work in and live in you have to adapt to it.”
She would like to be part of the International Space station programme again and be on the Crew exploration Vehicle that the U.S would build to take astronauts to the moon and Mars. “When i grow up, and i would like to be an astonaut, Physical endurance or scientific knowledge, Sunitha Williams said the 8.5 minute ride on the rocket would get one to micro gravity.” Your body should be able to adjust to returning from ” a world where you don’t have any gravity” to living in gravity on the earth.”They Physical endurance and scientific knowledge go hand in hand. Both are important.” When the microphone of one of the panellists malfunctioned and a staff member tried to vault over a platform to hand over another mike but stumbled, she quickly esssyed,”See how difficult it is here on earth. It would be alot more easier in micro gravity!” The capillary flow in space was the most interesting experiment performed on the ISS. It had future applications in engine design, fuels would move in micro gravity or zero gravity on the way to Mars so that there would not be imbalances in the fuel tanks.
“It makes us understand the tight tolerences needed for designing the fuel tanks and the dangers of the unknown in an expedition to Mars. The capillary flow is a simple experiment but it has amazing applications,” she said.On the persistent problem of foam coming off the fuel tank of the U.S space shuttles, William Gerstenmaler, Associate Administrator, Special operations Mission Directorate, NASA, said the shuttle did not have as many problems as the press made it out to be.