Yes we fit! Sunita Williams tries out her space suit

AHMEDABAD: What is going through Sunita Williams’s mind as she makes last-minute preparations before embarking on her second space odyssey on July 14?
A lot, according to an email her family sent to TOI. In quarantine and going through trials with her space suit, the Indian-American astronaut was thinking about her family and friends, whom she will be leaving behind for the next six months.
“Leaving again was difficult… life has been full of “maybe lasts” for me these last months,” she wrote from Baikanor in Kazakhstan from where she will blast off to space with her Russian and Japanese companions. “Leaving Houston and Mike (her husband Michael Williams), leaving Boston, mom, dad, Dina, Gorby, Elsie and Thomas, and this last time leaving Star City and all my family there. Sort of emotional, but I know I will see all these friends again!” Her spirits were as high as ever as she added that change was good and it meant that something else, which was full of fun, was just round the corner.
Sunita tried out their space suit only recently. “Yes we fit!” she exclaimed in jest after what she called the ‘fit check’. Despite the seriousness of the exercise, she did not lose her sense of humour. “Check out our cool Nancy Sinatra boots!” she said, referring to the American singer best known for her 1966 hit “These boots are made for walking”.
“I feel really comfortable in my suit and in the spacecraft,” she added. “Maybe, it is the test pilot in me that makes all this stuff seem natural. What is unnatural and uncomfortable for me still is talking to people and the press. For some reason I get sort of chocked up. Flying spacecraft is easier for me.”