Superstorm Sandy, that has claimed many lives and wrecked havoc in the densely populated US East coast region, looks enormous even when seen from space, Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams has said as she prepared to add to her record-setting space walking sojourns.
Williams is gearing up for another space walk scheduled for on Thursday to find and repair an ammonia coolant leak at the International Space Station (ISS).
‘The superstorm that has been ravaging the East Coast is enormous, even when seen from space’, Williams, commander of the International Space Station, said on Tuesday.
Williams said that she and her crew were able to make out the big swirl at the centre of Sandy as it neared land on Monday. The cloud cover stretched from the Atlantic almost all the way to Chicago. ‘It's pretty huge and hope everybody down there is safe and sound,’ Williams said .
On Thursday, Williams will add to her record of the world's most experienced spacewalking woman. She and a crewmate will venture out on a spacewalk to find and repair an ammonia coolant leak on the ISS.
The leak is tiny, the equivalent to a hole about the diameter of a human hair. But if it is not bypassed or repaired, the coolant in the channel 2B solar array will drop below safety margins over the next few months, taking down a critical power channel. In a bid to locate the leak, Expedition 34 commander Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide will suit up and venture outside the station.
Williams is gearing up for another space walk scheduled for on Thursday to find and repair an ammonia coolant leak at the International Space Station (ISS).
‘The superstorm that has been ravaging the East Coast is enormous, even when seen from space’, Williams, commander of the International Space Station, said on Tuesday.
Williams said that she and her crew were able to make out the big swirl at the centre of Sandy as it neared land on Monday. The cloud cover stretched from the Atlantic almost all the way to Chicago. ‘It's pretty huge and hope everybody down there is safe and sound,’ Williams said .
On Thursday, Williams will add to her record of the world's most experienced spacewalking woman. She and a crewmate will venture out on a spacewalk to find and repair an ammonia coolant leak on the ISS.
The leak is tiny, the equivalent to a hole about the diameter of a human hair. But if it is not bypassed or repaired, the coolant in the channel 2B solar array will drop below safety margins over the next few months, taking down a critical power channel. In a bid to locate the leak, Expedition 34 commander Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide will suit up and venture outside the station.