During a five-and-a-half hour spacewalk with her colleague Butch Wilmore, Sunita Williams surpassed former astronaut Peggy Whitson’s total spacewalking time of 60 hours and 21 minutes.

She might have forgotten how the mechanism of walking works, but Sunita Williams has broken the record of spacewalking at the International Space Station (ISS)!Thanks to the extended mission of ISS, the Indian-origin astronaut has broken the record for total spacewalking time by a woman by logging 62 hours and 6 minutes of spacewalk!

"Here we go," Mr Wilmore remarked as he exited the station, 420 kilometres above Earth, in a video livestreamed by NASA on X.