Female Astronaut Sets Space Record

[Dubh Aingeal]

U.S. astronaut Sunita 'Suni' Williams has set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the previous record of 188 days set by astronaut Shannon Lucid in '96, Williams has lived aboard the space station since last December.

It's just that I'm in the right place at the right time,' Williams, 41, said when Mission Control in Houston congratulated her on the record. 'Even when the station has little problems, it's just a beautiful, wonderful place to live.

[Homicidalheathen]

Now that is a lonely job.

[know_buddy_kares]

Hey wow, you hear so little of space stuff by the US I had almost thought that we weren't even doing that anymore!

Though being stuck in space all that time... how would one.. best bring some toys!

I do know of one transformer that never did quite make it to earth... wonder if it's a coincidence?