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Peggy Whitson on 24 April 2017 broke the record for most days spent in space (cumulatively) by a US astronaut. She broke the previous record set by Jeff Williams who had spent a total of 534 days in space.

– Whitson has been currently living and working aboard the International Space Station (ISS), for which she was launched in November 2016 using a Russian Soyuz capsule. At the time of her launch, she had already accumulated 377 total days in space.

– Her mission was recently extended for an additional three months. Now when she will return from ISS in September 2017, she would have accumulated more than 600 days in space.

The original 8086, which only had 1 MB of memory. This megabyte is split into low memory for IRQ tables, application memory and high memory.

A Slip ring is a ring in a dynamo or electric motor which is attached to and rotates with the shaft, passing an electric current to a circuit via a fixed brush pressing against it.

Slip rings are usually made of Phosphor Bronze.

Slip ring motors usually have a 'phase-wound' rotor. This type of rotor has a 3-phase, double-layer, distributed winding consisting of coils used in alternators. The rotor core is made up of steel laminations which have slots to accommodate formed 3-single phase windings.

The main use of salt in the diet is to produce in small amounts the hydrochloric acid required for the digestion of food.

The artificial kidney is the dialysis machine. Blood from the body is fed into the machine which removes nitrogenous wastes like urea and returns the blood back to the body.People with renal failure have to use this machine.

IFSC stands for - Indian Financial System Code. This is a code uniquely identifies each bank branch participating in the two main Payment and settlement systems in India :

1. RTGS - The Real Time Gross Settlement  (and)

2. NEFT - The National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT) systems.