Sunita Williams On When She Will Visit India: ‘Going To My Father's Home Country…’

Sunita Williams was addressing the first press conference along with fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore since their return to Earth as part of the SpaceX Crew-9 mission – having been stranded in space for over nine months - on Monday.

When asked how India looked from space when she was in the International Space Station and on the possibility of her collaborating with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on space exploration, the 59-year-old NASA astronaut replied, “India is amazing. Every time we went over the Himalayas, and I will tell you, Butch got some incredible pictures of the Himalayas. Just amazing.”

"And you can see, like I've described it before, just like this ripple that happened, obviously when the plates collided, and then as it flows down into India. It's many, many colours," she said.