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Zephyr 2007 at IIT Bombay
2007-10-11 10:47:00 Zephyr is an aero festival organised by aerospace engineering department of IIT Bombay. Over the past six years, Zephyr has drawn huge crowd with good participation from eminent colleges across the country. This year, Zephyr 2007 was organised from October 5th to 7th. The three-day long festival saw a variety of events including workshops, competitions, paper presentations, debates and guest lectures by eminent personalities. Also, it was held along with golden jubilee celebrations of IIT Bombay.On the evening of October 5th, the festival started with an inaugural address by Dr B Suresh, Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC). Before Dr Suresh's address, the film ?16 days: Columbia's Final Mission? on the disastrous space shuttle flight that resulted in the death of Kalpana Chawla and six other astronauts and another film on the Challenger space shuttle disaster was screened. On the second day, Dr Suresh was the first speaker. He spoke about ISRO's Chandrayan missi...
Did Sunita Williams really accepted Islam?
2007-09-09 08:24:00 The news in Emails, online Forums is spreading like fire all around that Astronaut Sunita Williams accepted Islam recently after visiting on the Moon. Sunita Williams is the first women from Indian origin visited on Moon.Well...this may be rumor, as if she would have accepted Islam, then it would be a main headlines on the news channel.But one thing is very interesting that... When the scientists at NASA, took the pictures from their space satellites, whole world appeared to be dark except Makkah shareef and Medina shareef.Have a look here:My appeal:As there is no such news from official sources, I request my muslim brothers to do not spread this rumor that she embraced Islam... coz Islam itself is against spreading rumors.
Atlantis & Sunita Williams: Makes a SAFE Landing in California
2007-06-24 08:09:00 After enormous hurdles and hours in the sky trying to safely land the Atlantis, the astronauts finally managed to do so at the Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, California. Sunita ?Suni? Williams and shuttle commander Rick Sturckow were amongst the seven astronauts who landed safely.Suni Williams was happy to be back on Earth and was heard saying that she is looking forward to a slice of pizza and walking on the beach with her husband and dog Gorby. But she was sad to leave the International Space Station. She explained, ?When you?ve been somewhere for six months, it becomes your home and it?s hard to leave.? Sunita Willams has now set an endurance record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman at 195 days.Rick Sturckow, while standing on the landing strip, remarked, ?It?s just great to be back on planet Earth. There were a lot of challenges on this mission and they were all dramatic. All the solutions worked well.? As of now, the Atlantis? seven astronauts prepared...
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Astronaut Sunita Williams returns after record stay in space
2007-06-23 09:06:00 Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams returned to earth after a record 195-day stay in space as space shuttle Atlantis touched down at the Edwards Air Force Base in California today. The spacecraft landed at 0119 IST at Edwards in the Mojave Desert where it was diverted after poor weather at the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral forced mission managers to skip three landing attempts
Astronaut Sunita Williams Sets the Record Straight, and Long
2007-06-20 11:40:00 Call it a great leap forward for women in space.After six years of people, three of whom have been women, living in space aboard the International Space Station, the female time-in-space endurance record set 11 years ago has been broken.And it was broken in a single flight.Image to right: Astronaut Sunita L. Williams, Expedition 15 flight engineer, wearing squat harness pads, poses for a photo while using the Interim Resistive Exercise Device (IRED) equipment in the Unity node of the International Space Station. Credit: NASANASA Astronaut Sunita Williams set a new record this morning at 12:47 CDT for the longest duration spaceflight by a woman. At that time, Williams surpassed Shannon Lucid?s mark of 188 days, 4 hours set in 1996.Williams began her record-setting flight when she launched with the crew of STS-116 in December 2006. The Massachusetts native remained onboard the station as a member of the Expedition 14 crew and then joined the Expedition 15 crew in April. Her spacefligh...
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Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams set New Record
2007-06-18 07:42:00 Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams today made history, by setting a new record for the longest uninterrupted space flight undertaken by a woman. International Space Station, ISS engineer Williams, whose father hails from Gujarat, surpassed the 188-day, four-hour mark set by her compatriot Shannon Lucid in 1996. This is not for the first time that the lady has set a record. About Sunita
Sunita Williams to return in June after record stay
2007-04-27 13:36:00 Houston, April 27: Setting a record for space walks by a woman astronaut, Indian American Sunita Williams will return to Earth early June.
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Sunita Williams begins Boston Marathon in space
2007-04-17 11:58:00 London. Apr.17 : Indian-American Sunita Williams started her attempt to run the Boston Marathon in space on Monday, reports The Mirror.
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Sunita Williams, first to run a Marathon from Space!!
2007-04-15 08:19:00 Sunita Williams, the Indian American astronaut will be the first to run a Marathon in Space. This attempt involves running the Boston Marathon 210 miles above Earth, staying in Orbit. She plans to run the 26.2 mile race on a device called ‘treadmill’ on Monday at 7:30pm IST, as the marathon also begins at almost the ...
Sunita Williams to run Earth race from space
2007-04-14 09:30:00 By Arun Kumar, Washington, April 14: Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams will attempt to do something 210 miles above Earth that no other astronaut has ever done. She will run the Boston Marathon while in orbit.
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US space tourist comes calling on Sunita Williams
2007-04-10 08:53:00 By Arun Kumar, Washington, April 10 : Billionaire American space tourist Charles Simonyi and two new co-tenants have arrived at Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams's home in space on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
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Sunita Williams to run the Boston Marathon in space
2007-03-30 13:15:00 London, Mar 30 : Indian origin US astronaut Sunita Williams will be running for the Boston Marathon in space. She qualified for the marathon by finishing among the top 100 women in the Houston Marathon in January 2006.
By: newkerala.com
Sunita Williams conducts space adaptation experiments
2007-03-10 12:53:01 By Arun Kumar, Washington, March 10: Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams and Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria spent the week performing experiments related to human adaptation to space and preparing for upcoming additions to the International Space Station.
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