Sunita Williams hoists Indian flag in space

[ALOK31]

Houston, Aug 14: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams today displayed the tricolour on board the International Space Station and wished Indians on the eve of their 66th Independence Day.

"I wish India a very happy Independence Day for August 15... India is a wonderful country and I am very proud to be a part of India," she said in her message.

"Of course, you know that I am half Indian. My father is from Gujarat. So, I am familiar with culture and customs of India. I am so proud to a part of this (Independence Day) celebration," Williams said displaying India's national flag.

Williams, 46, along with Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Japan's Akihiko Hoshide left for the ISS aboard a Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-05M on July 15 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Williams, who was a flight engineer on the station's Expedition 32 crew, became commander of Expedition 33 after reaching the space station.

Williams was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in 1998. She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15. She holds the record of the longest spaceflight (195 days) for female space travellers.

Sunita Williams hoists Indian flag in space

 

[Parul]

Thousands laid down their lives so
that our country is breathing this day
Never forget their sacrifice...

Happy Independence Day

 

[Mirza Jatt]

Really Nice and thanks to the lady.

 

[ILLUMINATO]

Thanks lady for hoisting our national flag in Space station .I wish one day India will have her own station up there orbiting earth.

 

[anarchy 99]

Thousands laid down their lives so
that our country is breathing this day
Never forget their sacrifice...

Happy Independence Day

Can you truly call it independence when your foreign policy is run by Washington?

 

[oFFbEAT]

Can you truly call it independence when your foreign policy is run by Washington?

We have given Washington the job of looking after our foreign policy...we are the boss here......

 

[anarchy 99]

We have given Washington the job of looking after our foreign policy...we are the boss here......

It didn't seem like you were the boss when your master told you to stop buying Iranian oil and you obeyed after a little resistance.

 

[Markus]

It didn't seem like you were the boss when your master told you to stop buying Iranian oil and you obeyed after a little resistance.

Your China has also reduced Iranian oil imports under US pressure.

Do check out your own country before opening your mouth.

 

[oFFbEAT]

It didn't seem like you were the boss when your master told you to stop buying Iranian oil and you obeyed after a little resistance.

He He He......That's what CCP informed you??

It's China who reduced oil import after the American embargo on Iran....but India continued to and is still continuing import at the same rate.....

 

[Matrixx]

Can you truly call it independence when your foreign policy is run by Washington?

I think you are in wrong thread...go to 14 August thread because their foreign policy is run by China and USA

 

[kingkobra]

Chinese:trolling earns them their livelihood

 

[pakindia]

It didn't seem like you were the boss when your master told you to stop buying Iranian oil and you obeyed after a little resistance.

see whose talking about independence......a chinese??...imperialism at its best..

 

[IND151]

It didn't seem like you were the boss when your master told you to stop buying Iranian oil and you obeyed after a little resistance.

India is still buying Iranian oil

 

[Bhai Zakir]

Sunita Williams unfurls Indian flag on ISS

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Can you truly call it independence when your foreign policy is run by Washington?

We are free, we don't live under the threat of crushing under the tanks wheel or getting a knock on the door before get shot for writing on internet.

 

[Tshering22]

Can you truly call it independence when your foreign policy is run by Washington?

Well you celebrated national day even when USSR was your all-time master right?

So why not this?