Sunita Williams describes seeing India from 250 miles above Earth onboard the International Space Station

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.