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Two NASA astronauts, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stranded on the Space Station for more than six months , are awaiting their return to Earth.
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore reached the space station on June 5 in Boeing's spacecraft Starliner, but NASA later declared Starliner unsuitable for human travel. It is expected that both passengers can return to Earth in March or April next year.
Sunita Williams, who is present on the space station, constantly talks to people on Earth and shares her experiences with the world. Meanwhile, a statement made by Sunita Williams in 2013 is being widely shared on social media.
Sunita Williams is watching sunrise and sunset 16 times a day
While being felicitated in the presence of then Chief Minister Narendra Modi at Gujarat University in 2013, Sunita Williams shared her thoughts about the surreal experience of the space station. She said, "Since I wanted to go to space and worked hard for it, I was fortunate to see 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets in a day in a fast-moving spacecraft.
The space station completes one orbit of the Earth every 90 minutes
Let us tell you that the space station revolves around the Earth at a speed of about 28,000 kilometers per hour. It completes one orbit every 90 minutes. The astronauts present on the space station get a chance to see sunrise and sunset at an interval of 45 minutes.
However, the lifestyle and day routine of astronauts on the space station remains fixed. It includes eating, sleeping, exercising, etc., following a set schedule.
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