Sunita to fly commercial flights as a major aspect of Mars project

Mangalore Today News Network

WASHINGTON, July 13, 2015: Indian-origin Sunita Williams is among four "veteran" astronauts picked by Nasa to fly the first commercial space vehicles, a part of the space agency’s ambitious plan to put a man on Mars by 2030.

 

Williams, 49, accompanied by Robert Behnken, Eric Boe and Douglas Hurley , will train and prepare for commercial spaceflights that will return American launches to the US soil and further open up lowEarth orbit transportation to the private sector.

"These distinguished, veteran astronauts are blazing a new trail -that will one day land them in the history books and Americans on the surface of Mars," said Nasa administrator Charles Bolden.

 

Courtesy: TOI