Days after the Nagpur violence, police on Wednesday arrested Fahim Shamim Khan, identified as the alleged mastermind behind the communal violence
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00:00Armed mob terrorized the area.
00:15Rioters tried to kill cops with petrol bombs.
00:21Mob attempted to strip female cop.
00:29Female cops sexually assaulted and abused.
00:35Mob shouted provocative slogans.
00:41Cops abused with communal slurs.
00:46False rumors spread.
00:53Chilling Nagpur violence probe details.
01:01Were clashes a pre-planned conspiracy?
01:24Nagpur riots mastermind arrested.
01:29Minorities Democratic Party leader Fahim Khan seen spreading rumors and mobilizing crowds.
01:35An alleged sex attack.
01:42Sexual assault on cop by Nagpur rioters.
01:45Woman constable molested by rioters attempt to strip woman.
01:51Cop subjected to obscene gestures.
01:58A major chunk now blaming wiki Kaushal's Jhaava for the Nagpur riots.
02:05Online attacks on Kaushal's film.
02:07Netizens claim Jhaava fanned Aurangzeb fire.
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03:33Let's get you quickly up to speed with the latest in terms of investigation in the Nagpur violence.
03:38The alleged mastermind behind the riots that rocked Nagpur on March 17th has been unmasked.
03:44Here is the full detail.
03:52The man behind the violence fueled a night in Nagpur on March 17th unmasked.
03:58This is Fahim Khan, the alleged rights mastermind and a member of the minorities Democratic Party in Nagpur.
04:06Now in police custody.
04:09India today accessed proof of how Fahim Khan instigated the mob just before the violence.
04:15Stoking fire with rumors that a holy charter was burned by Hindus.
04:21Fahim claimed the police only acted against one community while shielding the other.
04:52Soon after, an angry mob turned up outside the police station in Nagpur,
04:59where Fahim allegedly asked his supporters to gather and protest.
05:08India today accessed damning details in the FIRs filed by the police.
05:13Fahim Khan mobilized 50 to 60 people who were protesting outside the police station
05:18to demand action against the Bajrang Dal and VHP for allegedly burning the holy charter.
05:23Not happy with the police response, Fahim asked the mob to gather and protest.
05:28Around 4pm on Monday, a crowd gathered around Shivaji Chowk,
05:33accusing police of backing the VHP and the Bajrang Dal.
05:36The FIR also says that sloganeering and a fake narrative led to the rioters attacking cops.
05:42As I said earlier, some people were trying to establish their role,
05:47whether they were involved in the riot or not.
05:55More shocking details of the rioters running amok has emerged.
05:59Women police personnel on the ground were targeted by the mob.
06:03The FIR says the rioters tried to molest a woman constable and even strip a woman cop.
06:09Obscene gestures were allegedly made at other female officers.
06:13Rioters allegedly hurled communal slurs at Hindu police officers,
06:17while some attempted to even kill police officers by throwing petrol bombs.
06:22A woman constable was injured.
06:26What happened to her?
06:29The entire force was there.
06:31She was injured.
06:33She was treated and was given first aid.
06:37The incident in Nagpur is very serious.
06:40Keeping in mind the seriousness of the incident,
06:45we will take strict action.
06:50We will not tolerate people raising their hands on DCP level officers and police personnel.
06:59The anti-terrorist squad is probing how the mob armed with sticks and stones was mobilised so quickly
07:05and how petrol bombs were used to target cop cars.
07:09The sensitive area of Das Police Station,
07:12where the riot took place the day before yesterday,
07:17is still the same.
07:21The mastermind arrested, 50 rioters nabbed.
07:25Was the violence in Nagpur pre-planned or spontaneous?
07:29With Sumi and Mustafa in Nagpur, Bureau Report, India Today.
07:36There's a very big political fallout of all of what went down in Nagpur.
07:40Why are things playing out the way they are?
07:43We're going to try and get in perspective from some of the top journalists in Maharashtra.
07:46But before that, I want to cut across to our ground reporter, Mustafa Sheikha,
07:50who's steadfastly been reporting all the developments in terms of investigation from Nagpur.
07:55Mustafa, can you take us through the sequence of investigations that have been carried out
07:59and what has really come to the fore, which led to what has been till now
08:04a very peaceful city to break into the kind of violence that it did?
08:12Well, of course, Preeti. The two days I've spent here,
08:15it is really unfortunate that something like this has happened in Nagpur.
08:18We have seen both the communities staying together, shops, commercial shops,
08:22residences being together. But yes, it has changed now, it seems.
08:25If you see that the FIR which has come to light,
08:28which is the FIR registered in Ganeshpet Police Station,
08:31in which Fahim Khan has been named, he's from the Minority Democratic Party.
08:36He seems to have kick-started and triggered this entire violent protest directly or indirectly
08:42because he gathered unlawfully with some mob outside Ganeshpet Police Station
08:47asking for an FIR to be registered, after which more crowd, more and more crowd gathered.
08:51And especially the slogans which were raised, and also Fahim Khan targeted the police,
08:57blaming the police, saying that the police supported VHP and Bajrang Dal.
09:00So that's why the unfortunate attacks or the misbehaviour with movement policemen,
09:04which was seen, was because of this narrative which was stoked in the minds of people
09:08that it is the police who is supporting them.
09:10And that's why, in such an inhuman way, these rioters behaved with the policemen.
09:14Back to you.
09:16All right, Mustafa. I appreciate you joining us for that quick update.
09:19The investigations are still on. There is an FIR, but there will be counter-FIRs
09:23in Trust India today to get you a very unbiased perspective on what really went down in Nagpur.
09:28Till then, let's cut across to three journalists who've been tracking the story,
09:33especially the political fallout of it.
09:35Joining me, Sudhir Suryavanshi, Senior Assistant Editor, News Indian Express, Mumbai.
09:40Dhaval Kulkarni, Senior Associate Editor, India Today Magazine.
09:43I begin with Sahil Joshi, Managing Editor, Rajtak, Mumbai Bureau and Mumbai Tak.
09:48Sahil, there is a clear political fallout of it.
09:51Now, why are we seeing what we are seeing? It's a government which has brute majority yet,
09:55you know, the kind of commentary that we are seeing even inside the incumbent
09:59government with all the allies is unfathomable.
10:08Well, it's very interesting that it has never happened before that, you know,
10:13the issue with respect to Aurangzeb's tomb in Khultabad, in Sambhaji Nagar
10:19has ever became such a big issue that there were widespread protests across Maharashtra
10:24by the VHP and Bajrang Dal and the fallout has been seen in Nagpur.
10:29It is completely unheard of what Mustafa was saying a while back that it had never
10:34happened in Nagpur that the riots because of the religious,
10:38two religious groups clashed with each other. It had never happened in 1992 as well.
10:43When the Mumbai was burning, the Nagpur was completely calm and quiet.
10:47So, interestingly, nobody thought that Aurangzeb's tomb issue will become such a big
10:54political fallout in Maharashtra. It clearly looks like that there is some sort of
11:00one-upmanship within the alliance partners and the way, you know, we saw that the
11:06issue originally was picked up by Eknath Shinde, the leader of Shiv Sena
11:12and the Deputy Chief Minister when Abu Asim Azmi, the Samajwadi Party's Maharashtra
11:17President, while speaking to the media said that some of the historians have said that
11:22Aurangzeb was also a good administrator and that that issue was picked up by Eknath Shinde in Maharashtra Assembly
11:31and then everybody started talking about it and the peak of that issue happened when
11:37Nitesh Rane, one of the minister, the BJP minister, while speaking to the Bajrang Dal
11:43and BHP activist in Shivneri on the day of Shiv Jayanti made it very clear that
11:48there should be a Babri-like action in Maharashtra with respect to the Aurangzeb's tomb and the government will do its duty.
11:55So, you know, it clearly looks like that there is some kind of a one-upmanship.
12:01Having said that, it's very serious the way things happened in Nagpur and the way
12:05a political party which nobody has heard of, I mean the leader of the political party who has been arrested in Nagpur
12:11had contested the Lok Sabha election and he had merely got 1500 votes when he contested Lok Sabha election.
12:19So, it is completely interesting to see, it's very interesting to see that such a small party made Nagpur boiling on 17th of March.
12:32So, it clearly, as I said before, that it looks like that there is a kind of a one-upmanship and that is actually…
12:38Many layers within the story. Right. I want to bring in Dhawal Sahil. Thank you for joining us.
12:42Dhawal, with your perspective, for somebody who studied the politics of Maharashtra, why are we seeing the kind of language that you see?
12:50Where you have a deputy chief minister of the state who actually says that he will charge people with treason if they praise Aurangzeb.
12:56Preeti, let us get this very clear. Any form of violence or hate speech is obviously deplorable.
13:03But at the same time, we must also realize that the problem or the controversy did not begin with the screening of Chhawa but what happened after that.
13:13Because as if on cue, Abu Asim Azmi, you know, speaks out in favor of Aurangzeb, then he is suspended from the assembly in the ongoing budget session.
13:21Then, you know, the leaders from the Hindu right-wing groups, they get into the act, making all sorts of incendiary statements, even calling for the demolition of Aurangzeb's tomb,
13:32which is a protected monument, which is a monument that has been protected by the Archaeological Survey of India.
13:38See, the problem is, you know, in Maharashtra, as the historian T.S. Shejwalkar famously said,
13:45History is the ghost which is sitting on Maharashtra's neck. He said,
13:52And he is so true. It was so prescient, you know, because today we are so obsessed with history, its contentious readings and interpretations and the real and imagined slides of the past.
14:01We vacillate so much between narratives of chest-thumping and victimhood that we have taken our eyes off what the present and future hold for us, you know.
14:10And if religion is the opium of the masses, history combined with religion is an even more potent fix.
14:15And what is more shocking is that even ministers and leaders from the Durjeev Mahayati combined in Maharashtra are making communally loaded and incendiary statements.
14:25And there are good reasons to say that this is meant to divert public attention away from the more pressing bread and butter issues of the day.
14:36So for instance, Maharashtra's economy, and I am referring to the economic survey of Maharashtra which was tabled in the state legislature recently.
14:46So the economic survey, which is an official state government publication, shows that Maharashtra's economy is expected to grow at 7.3% in 2024-25,
14:58which is lower than the 7.6% growth that the state saw in the preceding financial year.
15:04And it has also said industrial growth and services sector growth are expected to fall.
15:09You know, you go anywhere, you speak to any youngster in Maharashtra, the rising cost of education, lack of jobs and employment, lack of afforded healthcare, they are pressing issues.
15:20And let me say this aloud, are our politicians trying to feed people this heady mix of religion and history just to keep public attention away from these issues?
15:29And as Sahil rightly pointed out, there are wheels within wheels.
15:33There is a battle going on between the BJP and the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra in which, you know, these are sort of collateral damages.
15:43This is all collateral in that.
15:45You know, I'm going to, because it's really important with what Dhaval and Sahil have said, especially for our viewers to get a larger understanding.
15:51I want to bring in Sudhir into this conversation and in the days to come, we're going to do a larger debate on just that.
15:55But Sudhir, if you can put the spotlight on, Sahil, what in the perspective that you also touched upon yesterday,
16:00you know, the infighting within the incumbent government where the allies are concerned and a race of one-upmanship.
16:07Then you have Dhaval who said very clearly, diversionary tactics, the economic survey, the debt Maharashtra is under,
16:13the taking away of funds from the Ladki Bahen Yojana.
16:16All of that feeding off on what you can see on ground is a communally explosive, you know, reality right now playing out in Nagpur.
16:25Preeti, I think we all are discussing this issue.
16:33You know, generally what happens, this kind of communal issues has been, you know, raised and raked up during the election campaign.
16:41And when the election campaign, you know, gets over, everybody, you know, join the administrative work and the focus on the development.
16:49But here we have seen very different kind of politics in Maharashtra.
16:54Maharashtra has not witnessed such kind of politics earlier.
16:57You know, this Mahayati government has got, you rightly said, it has got a brutal majority in the house.
17:03The house number, you know, strength is 288 and they got more than 170, more than 200 seats.
17:11Still they are making, you know, that inflammatory, provocative comments against the one community,
17:18pitching against one community.
17:21I think that is quite curious to know and understand all these things, why such kind of things are happening.
17:27First thing, what I feel that, as Sahil rightly pointed out that, within the Mahayati there is a big competition between the
17:34Eknath Shinde, who is the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, and Devendra Farnaiz, the chief minister.
17:39And the both party, you know, share the same Hindutva ideology.
17:43You know, to cut to size the Uddhav Thackeray, they broke the Sena.
17:46Now there is another alternative, that party is also growing day by day.
17:50And Shinde is also ambitious for the top post.
17:53So, I think that is one of the reason to grab as much as space and therefore the BJP leader, you know,
18:00Nitesh Rane, has been making very controversial statement from the day one,
18:05as he is saying that there was no Muslim, you know, in the Shivaji's army.
18:09Then he has made a controversy, Malhar and Jatka, you know, mutton, all these things.
18:14Why such kind of controversy was made by him and, you know, tacit support by his bosses?
18:20Today it's very good thing that Devendra Farnaiz, you know, it reportedly, you know,
18:25told all his political, his cabinet leader, restrained from making such communal, you know, statement.
18:32One thing I don't understand, one hand chief minister and his delegation went to Davos in Switzerland,
18:38to sign the 17 lakh crore, you know, agreement for the investment in Maharashtra.
18:43And other hand, we are having the violence in Nagpur, where the Mian project is there.
18:48So, what kind of example, what kind of message they want to send to the investor?
18:52That is a big question.
18:54Okay, fair point.
18:55I appreciate all three of you for joining us, sharing your perspective.
18:58We are going to do a larger debate tomorrow.
18:59I hope all three of you would be joining us because, you know,
19:02with what is happening is on one side viewers,
19:04where you see the kind of violence that takes place, the investigation that is going on.
19:09Nagpur, a peaceful city, suddenly sitting on a communal tinder box.
19:13But away from that, there was a political fallout and why?
19:16The kind of statements that are coming together.
19:18We are going to break that down and that should be broken down.
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20:27It was so much fun.
20:28It was like being on a roller coaster, but then you are just floating around once you got there.
20:32Like Superman.
20:40You feel like you are actually part of the world, not necessarily part of a country when you are there.
20:46I love my dogs, right? I miss them.
20:48At least for me, it is a finite amount of time and I will be back home with them before long.
20:54Hi, I am astronaut Sunny Williams.
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21:20I have had an amazing career here at NASA.
21:23I will have to say, knock on wood, I have just been really lucky in the right place at the right time.
21:46I went to the Naval Academy class of 1987.
21:49I was a physical science major.
21:52I have been in the Navy now 28 years.
21:56One of the greatest things about the Naval Academy is it gives you a lot of opportunities.
22:01And one of those opportunities for me was going to dive school on my way to flight school.
22:06Right after that, I got picked up for test pilot school.
22:08Tested all the helicopters in the Navy and the Marines.
22:16We had the opportunity to come here to Johnson Space Center.
22:19And I have been at NASA since 1998.
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22:40You will see that one again.
22:45Oh, no, no, that's too hard.
22:48Hi, I am astronaut Sunny Williams.
22:51That wasn't enthusiastic?
22:53Just joking.
22:56Yeah, it took a little while.
23:01When I was on my first flight and I was able to see the space station out of the space shuttle window for the first time,
23:07that was an amazing gold star.
23:10And that is really, really cool.
23:19I have to tell you, this is my first time in space.
23:21But if I did have the opportunity to go again, I absolutely would.
23:25Because it's really fun living up here for one thing.
23:28Floating around is just unbelievable.
23:30It's sort of like being Mary Poppins.
23:33You just get to fly everywhere.
23:35So that's a lot of fun.
23:36But that's just a cursory thing.
23:38Secondly, with all the science that we are doing up here,
23:41we're contributing to science projects on Earth
23:45and further developing our understanding of space and spacecraft and the future of exploration.
23:58The best things about being in space for a long period of time
24:01is taking a lot of people along with you for the ride.
24:07The crew running just a few minutes behind their timeline.
24:10No impact to what is expected to be a full six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk today.
24:15Greer and Suni Williams.
24:23I copied, Suni. Hold on one second.
24:26Good view of Mike Lopez, Alec Greer on the right.
24:29Suni Williams on the left, just above the early ammonia servicer.
24:37Thousands of miles away from home.
24:40Some lucky students in Delhi are going to get to do just that tonight.
24:43We've got a bunch of students with us who are going to be questioning astronaut Sunita Williams
24:47who's in space currently and they're exceedingly excited about it.
24:50My name is Abhishek.
24:52I feel in this era of terrorist threats and no peace,
24:55space is an avenue which gives a feel of unity to all.
24:59What do you think about this?
25:01Up here, you don't see any borders.
25:03The world just looks like one beautiful place where people probably are living very peacefully
25:08and it's a great view and hopefully we get to share it with you
25:11with some of our videos and our pictures and some of our words that we send down.
25:15So I think space is a great avenue where people are working together
25:18and the International Space Station is a great example of that
25:21where we have over 16 countries working together to build this marvelous engineering project up here.
25:34When they first took off, that's only a minute and a half for the solid rocket boosters
25:40and then only six more minutes for the main engines.
25:43So as soon as we got up there, you undo your seat belt
25:46and you can see, actually even before that, your pencil starts to float if you have a pencil
25:51and then your arms just naturally start to float because you're not used to holding them down
25:55and you undo your seat belt and then you just start floating out of your seat.
25:59We were laughing the whole time. It was so much fun.
26:02It was like being on a roller coaster, but then you're just floating around once you got there.
26:06However, we went to work right away because there's lots of work to do.
26:10So right away we go to work and I was diving into all the small little cracks and crevices on the spacecraft
26:15trying to help change it and get it all ready
26:18and I think finally my brain understood where I was and I felt really sick.
26:23I think it was all this flipping around and twirling around
26:26I didn't know what was going around.
26:28So I had some tomato soup the morning before I launched
26:31and it was nice because it was easy to go down and it was very easy to come back up again.
26:35Cleaned it right up and then I was ready to go.
26:38But you have to be careful when you think about that.
26:41Also, if you do get sick, right, because if you throw up, think about that for a second.
26:45It just goes everywhere.
26:47So you have to be ready with the bag, ready to catch it.
26:50But I felt fine afterwards.
26:53I think people ask me, were you really happy to come home?
26:57And I think I was, in my emotion, a little more sad to leave the space station
27:02because it's a beautiful place and it's just a great place to work and live
27:07and you feel like you're actually part of the world,
27:10not necessarily part of a country when you're there.
27:13So I think I was really happy to come home.
27:18So, you know, space exploration, even in the United States,
27:22even though it seems very far away from here while we're in India at this moment in time,
27:26is difficult.
27:28It's expensive and it takes resources, of course, from other projects.
27:34But, you know, we're in the United States.
27:37We're in the United Kingdom.
27:39We're in the United States.
27:41We're in the United Kingdom.
27:43It takes resources, of course, from other projects.
27:46But, you know, when you're solving the space problem,
27:50like how are we going to do this in space, how are we going to do that in space,
27:53it makes you solve problems differently, makes you think a little bit out of the box.
27:57And along the way, you solve other problems that can help people here on Earth.
28:08How to say shuttle?
28:10It's on the mid-deck.
28:12And so my main goal was part of the construction of the space station in that flight.
28:17This flight, the three of us working together in the Soyuz closely,
28:21it's a lot different like being on the flight deck.
28:24And then the mission for the space station now has moved on to science.
28:28And so we have a lot on our plate, like Yuri mentioned,
28:32but a big part of that is the science exploration.
28:34So I'm looking forward to that aspect of this mission.
28:38So it's going to be a very busy increment,
28:40but of course there's got to be time to look at the Earth
28:43because that's going to be one of the best things.
28:57Yuri, are you ready?
29:00There you go.
29:05The range at the Baikonur Cosmodrome is clear.
29:08The Soyuz rocket is ready to begin its journey.
29:12Launch key inserted.
29:14T-minus five minutes and counting as you hear the launch key has been inserted.
29:18Again, on your screen is Sonny Williams.
29:20There on the right-hand side, Yuri Malenchenko there in the middle.
29:23He is the commander of the Soyuz TMA-05M.
29:26Three, two, one.
29:31Liftoff. Liftoff of the Soyuz TMA-05M
29:35carrying Sonny Williams, Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide
29:39on a two-day journey to the International Space Station.
29:57Sonny Williams had took time off
30:07to participate in the Malibu triathlon exercise
30:12using various exercise equipment on the station
30:16to simulate the swimming.
30:19Shown here, she's actually using the advanced resistive exercise device.
30:24This is the system that simulates weight lifting here on Earth.
30:28And here, this simulates the muscles that she would be using
30:32in the swimming portion of the triathlon.
30:36Houston, station on two.
30:38We're done with the simulated swim in the transition
30:41and get ready for the bike over in the lab.
30:43Houston, copy.
30:45On her, with Capcom, who is serving as Capcom.
30:50Yesterday was Josh Matthew.
30:54Now transitioning to the cycle portion of the triathlon.
31:10Big thanks. I'm happy to be done.
31:12It wasn't easy and I'm sure everybody out in California
31:15is really excited to be done too.
31:17Take care and thank you.
31:24Hello. I'm Sonny Williams.
31:26I'm up here on the International Space Station.
31:29Now, I want to say where we are.
31:31So right now, we're in the Japanese laboratory.
31:34It's one laboratory out of many here on the International Space Station.
31:42So this is Node 2.
31:44This is a really cool module.
31:46Of course, most of these modules you see, they have four sides.
31:50And they're put together.
31:51That way, we could sort of work on a flat plane,
31:55either a wall, a floor, another wall, or the ceiling.
31:59But again, all you have to do is turn yourself
32:02and your reference changes.
32:05The reason I'm bringing that up is because
32:07this is where four out of six of us sleep.
32:10And so people always ask about sleeping in space.
32:13Do you lie down? Are you in a bed?
32:15Not really, because it doesn't matter.
32:17You don't really have the sensation of lying down.
32:19You just sit in your sleeping bag.
32:21So here's one sleep station right here.
32:24I'm going in right now.
32:26So I'm inside.
32:28It's sort of like a little phone booth, but it's pretty comfy.
32:32I've got a sleeping bag right here that we sleep in
32:35so we don't have sort of like a little bit of a cover.
32:38We don't fly all over the place.
32:41Here's a pretty cool place.
32:43This is sort of like in your house
32:45where everybody meets in the morning.
32:47After you wash your face, brush your teeth,
32:49you want to find something for breakfast.
32:51And this is our kitchen.
32:53You might notice there's all sorts of foods here.
32:56It's like opening the refrigerator.
32:58You've got all your different stuff that you want to have.
33:00Drinks, meats, eggs, vegetables, soups,
33:06drinks, meats, eggs, vegetables, cereals, bread, snacks.
33:14And that's a good place.
33:15That's where you find all the candy.
33:17I'm here with my two buddies in the airlock.
33:21Actually, these are two spacesuits
33:23that are ready, primed up to go outside,
33:26as we call it, to go do a spacewalk
33:28in case we have to do anything outside.
33:31Remember, space is really cold and really hot,
33:34and it's also the vacuum of space with no pressure.
33:37And so some of the equipment doesn't work well all the time.
33:40So we might have to go out and do a spacewalk.
33:43And Suni Williams and Aki Hoshide
33:46dancing to Madonna's Vogue,
33:48an exercise that also helps purge the nitrogen
33:52from their bloodstream.
33:53A socket that crew members will be using
33:57to a good view of Suni Williams out on the P-6 truss
34:02in between the two solar array wings that are on the P-4.
34:06This is Hoshide moving away from the Z-1 toolbox,
34:10headed back to the airlock.
34:33I'm going to turn it up this way,
34:35just so you can see the hatch,
34:37and you can see Kevin.
34:39It's a little bit small,
34:41but we'll come in and show you around.
34:43We're just starting to get ready.
34:44We were preparing a couple days ago for our ride home.
34:49It's a little bit squishy,
34:51but everybody asks,
34:52how do you sit in the Soyuz?
34:54And you sort of sit in your seat like this.
34:56The seat is molded to your body,
34:58and so you're sitting in the Soyuz.
35:00The seat is molded to your body,
35:02and so you can just sort of squish in here
35:04and be pretty relaxed.
35:05Everybody has a handmade seat for them.
35:09And then, of course, there's a control panel,
35:11and that's where we do most of our actions and work,
35:15right here.
35:16There's hand controllers,
35:17which you can fly the vehicle with.
35:19And there's a stick right here,
35:21primarily used for communications
35:23when we're trying to talk to the ground.
35:26So three of us fit in here.
35:28Like I said, it's a little squishy,
35:29but somehow it seems like we all managed to get in here
35:32and fit pretty well.
35:34And it's a pretty safe ride home.
35:36You're probably wondering,
35:37what's all this junk behind us?
35:39Well, it's all of our parachute, first of all,
35:41and then it's all of our survival gear,
35:43just in case we end up landing
35:45in some strange place on the planet
35:47and nobody's there to rescue us right away.
35:49We have all sorts of survival gear with us,
35:52keeping us safe in here.
35:54So they pretty much thought of everything.
35:56And we'll be home on the planet
35:58within the next 12 hours.
35:59Pretty shocking.
36:08This is Mission Control Houston.
36:09Touchdown confirmed.
36:11The front screen of the Russian Mission Control Center
36:13with the words,
36:14Yes to Posatka.
36:15They've landed.
36:17Expedition 33 is home.
36:18Sonny Williams, Yuri Malenchenko,
36:20Aki Hoshide,
36:22touching down northeast of Arkalyk.
36:24This is Mission Control Houston.
36:25We're now getting live video
36:27of the crew.
36:29Cheers going up from the flight control team
36:31here in Mission Control.
36:33Good view of Sonny Williams.
36:36Extraction of the crew.
36:38Very quickly,
36:39Sonny Williams wrapping up
36:41her second flight into space
36:42and a total of 322 days in space
36:45on her two missions.
36:47She conducted three spacewalks
36:50to emerge as the all-time leading female
36:53in terms of spacewalking time
36:55to have their Sokol launch and entry suits removed.
36:58There's that familiar infectious smile
37:00of Sonny Williams at the landing site.
37:06Made you a little bit nervous to think about.
37:08Was it much different to be the commander
37:10on Expedition 33
37:12than being the flight engineer
37:13on your previous mission?
37:15And how was it different?
37:16Yeah, well,
37:17I think it's more nervous to think about
37:19than actually do.
37:22I think it becomes natural up there.
37:25I mean, it's the place that you live.
37:27It's the place that you work.
37:28It's what you're doing.
37:29It's just, you know,
37:31becomes your life.
37:33And so you don't really think about it too much
37:34while you're up there.
37:35So I think the nervousness went away.
37:38I had a great crew that I worked with,
37:40Yuri and Aki.
37:41And then when Kevin and Oleg Evgeny came on board,
37:44it just felt like a big family.
37:47Those guys there,
37:48the two Russians, Oleg Evgeny,
37:49it's their first flight.
37:50They're rookies.
37:51And so they were calling me Mama.
37:53So I think that was the only big change
37:56when those guys came on board.
38:12I received a very special gift
38:14in one of my crew care packages.
38:16And I just wanted to show it off
38:18to everybody in India
38:19and wish India a very happy Independence Day
38:22for August 15th.
38:24And when people ask me about India,
38:25what do I think about?
38:27I think that it's a very colorful place,
38:30not only from the colors of the beautiful flag,
38:33but of all the people who are there.
38:35And it's a very creative, colorful, wonderful place.
38:39And I'm very proud to be from there.
38:40So happy Independence Day,
38:42everybody in India.
38:50A battery of camera persons,
38:52euphoric relatives and eager fans.
38:54This is what treated Sunita
38:56on her arrival at the Sardar Patel International Airport
38:59in Ahmedabad.
39:02Sunita looked distinctly awed
39:04by the huge crowd of people
39:06who were waiting for her arrival
39:08at the Sardar Patel International Airport
39:10in Ahmedabad.
39:11But she didn't know
39:12how to react to the crowd of people
39:14who were waiting for her arrival
39:16at the Sardar Patel International Airport
39:18She was distinctly awed
39:19by the hero's welcome she received.
39:22Probably because nine years ago
39:24when she had come to India,
39:25she was like any other visitor from abroad.
39:28But today,
39:29she's someone who has breached the final frontier.
39:35Oh, it's just overwhelming.
39:36The number of people
39:37and the heartfelt welcome that I've had.
39:40It's just been overwhelming.
39:41It's really wonderful.
39:42And I feel very welcome
39:44and very loved by everybody here.
39:46So it's great.
39:48Come on.
39:53Gujarat's Chief Minister
39:54in his first encounter
39:55was all praise for the astronaut.
39:58It seems that the Chief Minister
39:59now knows that it's not only him
40:01but also Sunita Williams
40:03who has become the pride of Gujarat.
40:05Good job.
40:15Hello, everybody in Jalasa.
40:23Know that I feel this is a very happy occasion
40:25to come to my father's ancestral home.
40:28I love being Indian,
40:29so I'm so happy to have brought him with me into space.
40:34I'm so happy to be Gujarati.
40:36I'm so happy to be from here.
40:46India is a little jewel that sticks out
40:48from usually underneath the clouds
40:50that hover above the Himalayas.
40:52And so it's pretty obvious where India is.
40:56My father's from the west coast of India,
40:58so I can easily find Gujarat
41:00when I'm looking at India there.
41:02And it's beautiful.
41:03I mean, apparently or obviously
41:05where the Himalayas hit the Tibetan Plateau,
41:09you can obviously see that,
41:12wow, something happened bigger,
41:14like plate tectonics
41:15or something happened here
41:16to make the Himalayas that big.
41:18And it's pretty impressive
41:19and it makes you really realize
41:21that the planet is itself living and breathing.
41:25It's pretty incredible.
41:26Is space something
41:27that should be promoted for tourism?
41:29Oh, I seriously believe so.
41:31And, you know, their model is
41:33not for leaving people in space
41:35for a long period of time.
41:36It's just actually going up
41:37and then coming back down.
41:38And I think what's good about that
41:40is it advances technology,
41:42makes us understand how to get to space.
41:45And I think more and more people going to space
41:48and having that view
41:49is just going to help all of us around the world
41:52because you'll get a different perspective.
41:57We are on the brink
41:58of launching American astronauts
42:00on American rockets from American soil
42:03for the first time since 2011,
42:06the retirements of the space shuttles.
42:08And so this is an exciting time.
42:10We have two providers for this new capability.
42:13We call it Commercial Crew.
42:14Sunny, tell me about a day in the life of Sunny
42:17since you've been selected
42:18as a Commercial Crew partner.
42:20Yeah, it's been a little bit crazy, but fun.
42:22I have to say that.
42:23Anything you're doing in the space business is fun.
42:25Previously, there was four of us
42:27who were selected for the Commercial Crew cadre,
42:29NASA astronauts,
42:30and we divided our time between both companies,
42:32SpaceX and Boeing.
42:33And now since the announcement,
42:34two of us have come over to the Boeing side
42:36and the other two to the SpaceX side.
42:38So we've got to focus our training and attention
42:41on this spacecraft.
42:42And not only this training,
42:44Chris is underestimating
42:45the other amount of things that we're doing.
42:47We're also doing a lot of testing,
42:48sort of like he was mentioning.
42:50This is a new spacecraft,
42:51so there's still a lot of things to look at
42:53inside the cockpit and how people live in there
42:56and how actually we're going to operate it.
42:58That's the next step after the development.
43:001, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
43:05Contact capture.
43:06Nice.
43:07You're in.
43:08I should have been an astronaut.
43:11This program, I think, is going to open up the door again
43:13for kids today to realize that the sky isn't even the limit.
43:17There's all sorts of amazing things that we can do.
43:20First of all, you know, make aircraft, make spacecraft,
43:24and then take spacecraft and do amazing things,
43:26make a space station, and then go even farther.
43:29I think this program will open the door
43:31for us to leave low Earth orbit.
43:34♪♪
43:41PNE-1, LC.
43:43Go for PNE-1.
43:44Verify AHB storage mass.
43:48♪♪
43:57All right.
43:58Whoo!
43:59Hey, how's it going?
44:02♪♪
44:07And we all know that when the going gets tough,
44:09and it often does, the tough get going.
44:13And you have.
44:16And Sonny and I are honored to share this dream of spaceflight
44:21with each and every one of you.
44:24So with that, LC, let's get going.
44:29Now, let's put some fire in this rocket.
44:31♪♪
44:56Good handle.
44:58♪♪
45:08Lots of cheering here in the room.
45:10Big hugs.
45:12Sonny William coming through in her blue flight suit.
45:16And followed shortly behind by Commander of Starliner
45:19Butch Wilmore, now back on the space station,
45:22the third visit for both astronauts
45:24and the first crewed flight test of the Starliner spacecraft.
45:28♪♪
45:35Tell me, you've spent a lot of time in space.
45:38How much time have you spent in space?
45:40A little over 320 days.
45:42A little over 320 days.
45:43So this time, when you go back, how long are you planning to stay?
45:48Probably six months.
45:50Another six months.
45:51Yeah, six months, and I hope we get to fill the other two seats
45:53with some of our international partners.
45:54Oh, that's great.
45:55Sort of like you were talking about,
45:56fill out the compliment to make us seven people
45:58on the International Space Station like it was designed for.
46:01♪♪
46:07Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams stuck in space.
46:10She and her crewmate Butch Wilmore are stranded
46:13after glitches were found in the Boeing spaceship they're traveling in.
46:16Sunita's return to Earth may now be delayed.
46:20Commander Matt Dominick as she gets suited up in her seat, ready for undock.
46:25♪♪
46:35Family up on the International Space Station.
46:37There's seven of us up here,
46:39and so we're going to get to enjoy company together.
46:41And, of course, Christmas is Christ.
46:45Hallelujah.
46:46A Savior is born.
46:49So from all of us to all of you,
46:53Merry Christmas.
46:55♪♪
47:03Ready?
47:04Begin.
47:05♪♪
47:09Unlock.
47:11♪♪
47:14An apron saying November, November is correct.
47:17♪♪
47:24Marjorie, are you back?
47:26Yes.
47:27You just set a record for spacewalks.
47:29What was that like to be the woman who has walked more hours in space than any other?
47:36You know, it's all sort of a matter of happenstance.
47:39I was really lucky to be in the astronaut corps
47:41when we were building this amazing International Space Station
47:44and had the opportunity to do a number of construction spacewalks.
47:48And then, you know, coming up here this time,
47:50it was not the plan, but we were ready.
47:52You know, Butch and I prepared,
47:54and we were fully up and ready to do anything for the ISS.
47:58So it was maybe good fortune that we got to do it,
48:01and a couple of the spacewalks were some pretty critical things,
48:04and we were able to get it done.
48:06♪♪
48:16♪♪
48:26And there you see it on your screen, drogue deployed.
48:30♪♪
48:36That was a live view from our recovery vessel.
48:41And splashdown, Crew-9 back on Earth.
48:44♪♪
48:54♪♪
49:08What are you looking forward to when you get back?
49:10My husband makes a good latte,
49:12so I'm looking forward to his latte.
49:14I'm also looking forward to seeing the rest of my family
49:17and my dogs and jumping in the ocean.
49:19I think that will be really nice to just be back on Earth
49:23and feel Earth that way.
49:25♪♪