Sunita Williams talks about India's view from space Source: Reuters
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00:00India is amazing.
00:01Every time we went over the Himalayas,
00:02and I'll tell you, Butch got some incredible pictures
00:06of the Himalayas.
00:07Just amazing.
00:08And you can see, like I've described it before,
00:11just like this ripple that happened, obviously,
00:14when the plates collided.
00:16And then as it flows down into India, it's many, many colors.
00:21I think when you come from the east going
00:24into like Gujarat and Mumbai, the fishing fleet that's
00:27off the coast there gives you a little bit
00:29of a beacon that here we come.
00:31And then all throughout India, I think the impression I had
00:35was it was just like this network of lights
00:37from the bigger cities going down through the smaller
00:40cities.
00:40Just incredible to look at at night,
00:42as well as during the day, highlighted, of course,
00:45by the Himalayas, which was just incredible as a forefront
00:48going down into India.
00:50I hope, and I think for sure, I'm
00:52going to be going back to my father's home country
00:55and visiting with people and getting
00:57excited about the first, or not the first,
01:00but the Indian astronauts who's going up on the Axiom
01:03mission coming up.
01:05Pretty awesome.
01:06They'll have a hometown hero there of their own
01:09that will be able to talk about how
01:10wonderful the International Space Station is
01:12from his perspective.
01:14But I hope I can meet up at some point in time
01:16and we can share our experiences with as many people in India
01:19as possible, because it's a great country,
01:22another wonderful democracy that's
01:24trying to put its foot in the space countries.
01:28And we'd love to be part of that and help them along.