{"id":249270,"date":"2024-05-06T10:04:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T04:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=249270"},"modified":"2024-05-06T10:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T04:34:53","slug":"samosas-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/samosas-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Samosas in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indian-origin astronaut Captain Sunita Williams, who loves to eat samosas in space, is ready to fly into space once again, and this time on a brand-new spacecraft, the Boeing Starliner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The liftoff is scheduled to take place from the Kennedy Space Center on May 7, 2024, at 8.34 8.04 am India time. She says she is a bit nervous but has no jitters about flying in a new spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While training at the launch pad, Ms Williams said, &#8220;When I reach the International Space Station, it will be like going back home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born to Dr Deepak Pandya and Bonnie Pandya, the 59-year-old will create history by being the first woman to fly on a maiden mission of a new human-rated spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A qualified navy test pilot, she has flown twice to space in 2006 and 2012, and according to data from NASA, &#8220;Sunita has spent a cumulative total of 322 days in space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunitha used to hold the record for maximum spacewalk time by a female astronaut as she has spent 50 hour and 40 minutes across seven spacewalks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian-origin astronaut Captain Sunita Williams, who loves to eat samosas in space, is ready to fly into space once again, and this time on a brand-new spacecraft, the Boeing Starliner. The liftoff is scheduled to take place from the Kennedy Space Center on May 7, 2024, at 8.34 8.04 am India time. She says she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":249271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[114170,114169,114168],"class_list":["post-249270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-captain-sunita-williams","tag-indian-origin-astronaut","tag-samosas-in-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/sunitha-williams.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249272,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249270\/revisions\/249272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}