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Sunita Williams scripts history in Space!!

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NASA: Astronaut Sunita Williams, the Indian origin-space traveller of NASA, made history on Thursday, becoming the woman to spend the most time in a space vacuum. Within the addition of a 5-hour and 26-minute walk outside the International Space Station (ISS), she totalled 62 hours and 6 minutes of spacewalking in her entire career. She became the 4th human on the list of those who achieved the most duration in spacewalks.

Before she ended the Thursday feat, she said that she and her colleagues were not the first or even the second to perform spacewalks, but somehow, they could “get it done,” The Republic World quoted her as saying.

Williams and her fellow astronaut Barry Wilmore successfully removed a faulty radio communications unit from the space station, a task that had been attempted twice before. The two astronauts worked together to free the radio frequency group (RFG) using a combination of different

This is Williams' second spacewalk in 12 years. The first occurred earlier this month when Williams and colleague Nick Hague undertook the spacewalk.

On Thursday, when Williams conducted her ninth career spacewalk, and Butch Wilmore conducted his fifth career spacewalk

Williams and Willmore, who became the first to ride the faulty Starliner by Boeing, have been stuck in space since June last year.

While NASA is yet to announce a date to bring them back, President Donald Trump has urged SpaceX founder and billionaire Elon Musk to get the astronauts back

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