NEW DELHI: Indian-American Sunita Williams has shared her insights on how India looked from space during her nine-month long stay on the International Space Station (ISS), with a special mention of Himalayas, fishing fleet along the coast of Mumbai and Gujarat.
In a presser on Tuesday, Williams said, “India is amazing. Every time we went over the Himalayas, and I’ll tell you Butch got some incredible pictures of the Himalayas, so just amazing. You can see this ripple that happened obviously when the plates collided and then as it it flows down into India it’s many many colors.”
“I think when you come from the east going into like Gujarat and Mumbai, the fishing fleet that’s off the coast there gives you a little bit of a beacon that ‘here we come’,” she added.
Describing the country as a “network of lights”, Williams said, “Then all throughout India, I think the impression I had was it was just like this network of lights. Bigger cities going down through the smaller cities just incredible to look at at night as well as during the day, highlighted of course by the Himalayas which is just incredible uh as a forefront going down into India.”

She further said that she was hopeful about vising her parental home. Williams is from Jhulasan village in Gujarat.
“I hope and I think for sure I’m going to be going back to my father’s home country and visiting with people,” she said.
Nasa astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams spent over 280 days in space after their planned eight-day mission, which began in June last year, was extended due to technical issues with their Boeing Starliner spacecraft.