Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Thursday, November 29th.  The sun will rise at 7:57.  It’ll be up for 9 hours and 6 minutes, setting at 5:04.   The moon, 1 day past full, will rise at 6:06 this evening.

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Yury Malenchenko and Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide landed last week Sunday in Kazakhstan with their Soyuz capsule after 125 days on the International Space Station.  Williams and Hoshide went on three space walks to make repairs.  This makes Sunny, as she likes to be called a total of 50 hours and 40 minutes of space walk time during seven EVAs, the most for any female.  In her two space missions, she’s spent a total of 322 days in space, tops for a US woman.  Perhaps the funniest incident that occurred to her was on her first trip to the space station.  She requested a tube of wasabi sauce to spice up her food, she’s Indian American, The tube sprayed all over in the stations low air pressure and made quite a mess.

Times are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.  They may be different for your location.

Addendum

Sunita Williams in a Russian Sokol space suit prior to the Soyuz launch.

She was a flight engineer for Expedition 32, and station commander for Expedition 33, the second female station commander.

Sunny Williams doing the running leg of a triathlon aboard the ISS.

Astronaut Sunita Williams and her crew mates Russian cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko and Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide