A highly engaging virtual session recently enabled Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams to embark some exciting sojourns with students at Needham, Massachusetts’ Sunita Williams Elementary School, relating her experiences into space missions for all its attention to give.
During this session in which the student’s minds were captured byWilliams regarding how astronauts handle drinking fluids under gravity-free conditions
As an experienced astronaut who has spent extensive time aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Williams shared fascinating details about life in space. She mentioned one of the most strange things about space travel, drinking liquids in microgravity. Liquids don’t behave like they do on Earth since there is no gravity in space. She said that astronauts use specialised pouches to drink fluids and described very ingenious solutions developed to overcome this challenge.
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A student gets a demonstration from astronaut, Sunita Williams on how to drink liquids in space. Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore hit the six-month mark in space after becoming the first to ride Boeing’s new Starliner capsule on what was supposed to be a week-long test flight.… pic.twitter.com/1UQSgvcHsN
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Interactive and Educational
It was an online event aimed to inspire and educate young minds. Questions could be asked, and answers given directly by Williams; this added a more engaging value to the session. It provided first-hand knowledge of what it is like to be aboard the ISS, evoking curiosity and enthusiasm in science, space exploration, and innovations in sustaining life beyond Earth.
This interactive session was sure to give students a glimpse of the space exploration world so that it would urge possibilities and further careers in the science and technology and also engineering of the students’ minds. Sunita Williams’ insights on life in the space would have surely left in the students a very long-lasting mark, therefore helping to generate further interest towards the mysteries that surround the universe.
