Sunita Williams, who openly acknowledged her passion for Indian food after coming back home from her first space trip in 2006, carried samosas on board the ISS.

Beyond their spacefaring careers, Sunita Williams and Kalpana Chawla had another common passion: samosas. The beloved Indian snack is a favourite comfort food for Williams, as it was for Chawla.

The Crew-10 mission will launch aboard the Falcon-9 rocket from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on a 12-hour-long journey to rendezvous with the flying laboratory in space.