Sunita Williams takes off for second space journey
Baikonur (Kazakhstan). Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams and two others on Sunday takes off successfully on a Russian spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the International Space Station.
Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams, Russian cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko and Japan’s Akihito Hoshide will travel two days before reaching their three colleagues already at the permanent space outpost.
Family members and colleagues watched Sunday’s launch from an observation platform in the Russian-leased cosmodrome in the dry southern steppes of this sprawling Central Asian nation.
46-year-old Williams received a master’s degree from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1995. In the space, Williams and her team of astronauts plan an orbital sporting event to mark the Summer Olympics in London.
