Sunita Williams off to space for the second time

Sunita Williams,the Indian-American astronaut has taken off to the International Space Station(ISS) for the second time.The 46-year-old holds the world record for the longest spaceflight(195 days) by a woman space traveller.Another world record is also held by her for the spacewalk.

Sunita took off from the Baikanor Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8.40 am (8.10 am IST) on Sunday with Flight Engineers Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
The three crew members will join the Expedition 32 crew aboard the International Space Station when their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft docks to the orbiting complex on Tuesday.

According to NASA, Williams, a flight engineer, and her colleagues will be aboard the station during an exceptionally busy period that includes two spacewalks, the arrival of Japanese, US commercial and Russian resupply vehicles, and an increasingly faster pace of scientific research.