Bhubaneswar: Astronaut Sunita Williams feels that residents of planet Earth take small things in life a bit too seriously, while everyday challenges in space makes one think out of the box.
“It’s so silly… We take life a little too seriously on Earth. We get aggravated with some of the littlest, stupidest things that really we shouldn’t because this is our one big planet,” Williams told Boston Public Radio on Wednesday.
“I think when we live up in space or try to build systems and processes for being somewhere other than Earth’s gravity, it makes you think outside the box,” added Williams, who is still in space.
Talking about the different emotions an astronaut experiences, Sunita said, “When you see your ship flying away, it’s a little heart-wrenching…that’s where we wanted to be, in that spacecraft coming home.”
However, astronauts are trained to get a hang of their emotions.
“We’re professional astronauts. We were trained for every contingency to live up here,” she added.
Sharing about activities that keep her engaged in space, Williams said when she isn’t working, she writes journals, talks to family and friends on Earth, listens to TED Talks and watches All Creatures Great and Small while exercising.
“I’ve never been bored while I’ve been on the space station,” revealed the astronaut.
Sunita, who is commander of the ISS and part of the Boeing Starliner crew flight test, is in space for the last eight months as her spacecraft experienced mechanical difficulties.
Sunita and her crew member Butch Wilmore are expected to return home in February next year.
