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Exercising at the International Space Station. NASA.
Carrying out repairs on the outside of the International Space Station. NASA.
MARATHON: SPACE
VERSUS EARTH
Sunita and her older sister Dina are keen ma-
rathon runners and have been very competitive
from an early age. They even did a marathon
while Sunita was in space: while Dina ran in the
streets of Boston, Sunita ran on a treadmill at
the space station and because the climatic con-
ditions were more favourable she beat her sis-
ter on Earth.
“Every trip is more about discovering your-
self than other places. And for some reason,
it takes all this technology for us to come up
here and understand the simplicity of thin-
gs. From up here it is really difficult to un-
derstand borders, wars, and hate!” (Sunita
Williams)
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