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Screenshot from the video shared by Himanta Biswa Sarma
NEW DELHI: Assam main curate Himanta Biswa Sarma connected Sunday shared a video showing an astronaut Mike Fincke performing Bihu, a accepted people creation from Assam, aboard the International Space Station (ISS).Sarma thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving “special focus” to the creation signifier and expressed his delight astatine "Bihu gaining planetary recognition."“Bihu successful the International Space Station. Kudos to astronaut Mike Fincke for this peculiar motion to Assam’s culture. It’s fantastic to spot Bihu going global, particularly aft the peculiar absorption fixed by Adarniya Shri @narendramodi ji during #BihuBinandia,” helium wrote connected X, alongside the video.
“Bihu Binandia” was a large-scale taste show held successful Guwahati successful April 2023, featuring astir 10,000 performers. The lawsuit was witnessed by PM Modi. According to The Assam Tribune, the video of Fincke performing Bihu is not caller and has resurfaced online. Its circulation comes arsenic the authorities presently celebrates Rongali Bihu, which marks the Assamese New Year. In the clip, Fincke is seen dancing to accepted Bihu euphony portion wearing a gamusa, a symbolic Assamese handwoven scarf, astir his neck.
He is joined to Renita Saikia, who is primitively from Assam and besides works with Nasa. The mates has 3 children. According to Nasa, Edward Michael “Mike” Fincke is simply a retired United States Air Force colonel who was selected arsenic an astronaut successful 1996. A Pennsylvania native, helium travelled to the ISS for the 4th clip connected August 1, 2025, arsenic aviator of the SpaceX Crew-11 mission. The ngo concluded successfully with a splashdown connected January 15.
