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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.

Turbines are machines powered by rotating blades.

The first bank established in India in the year 1770 was Bank of Hindustan followed by the General Bank of India in the year 1786. The State Bank of India (SBI) was the still existing oldest bank which was established in the year 1806 in the name of Bank of Calcutta.

Helioseismology is the study of the solar interior using observations of waves on the Sun's surface. It has done much to improve our understanding of the interior of the Sun, testing the physical inputs used to model stellar interiors and providing a detailed map of the Sun's structure and internal rotation.

Heat transfer through radiation takes place in form of electromagnetic waves mainly in the infrared region. It depends on nature of the body, its temperature and kind & extent of its surface.

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