NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Completes First Triathlon In Space
Sunita Williams on the Treadmill Suni Williams just completed a triathlon from space. She also ran the Boston Marathon during her last extended ISS stay, in 2007. NASAThe second female commander of the ISS adds another title to her long list of records. Astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams, who just took command of the International Space Station over the weekend, likes to break records. (She is only the second woman ever to command the ISS, by the way.) She holds the record for the longest continuous spaceflight by a woman, spending 195 consecutive days on the ISS. Now she's finished the first-ever space triathlon spaceathlon. Williams, 46, competed in the Malibu triathlon using equipment on board the ISS. She used the station's exercise bike, treadmill and a resistive exercise machine, which basically works like a weight-lifting machine but in weightlessness. This helped her simulate the type of workout she'd get in a half-mile...