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incredible sight alongside watching corals, algae   separated from it before touchdown. Having lived
                formation and growth under water. These can be   in space, the cosmonauts lack body balance and
                used for Earth Science and better understanding   equilibrium despite of their good exercise regime.
                of the health of our world.                      They are given body fluids through IV to bring
                                                                 back the balance.
                The magnificence concept of a borderless universe
                is experienced as cosmonauts view 16 sunrises    In Col. Fischer’s words, “It is an incredible reminder
                and sunsets in a day, as it takes about 90 minutes   to all of us, of the amazing things that we can do
                to  orbit  once  around  the  earth.  It  takes  about   when we work and explore together as one team
                seven seconds for the sun to go from nothing to   to build a borderless universe, and it is just the
                a full disk.  Fischer shared his unique experience   beginning”.
                of watching the Auroras- an awosome, a play of
                colours in the sky. Owing to the magnificence of
                the  universe, a  person  in  space  feels  small  and
                humbles with respect to his or her existence on
                this planet Earth.

                Vacuum and suction are used for performing
                daily human activities while in space. After about
                five months of living in space, he got back home.
                The process from undocking till touchdown
                took about four and half hours. During de-orbit,
                the spacecraft burns down and the capsule gets
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