Today marks 50 years of space flight. Here, in a quick montage, we look at the state of Gujarat celebrating NASA's Sunita Williams as she comes to her father's native state.

The crowds, the media, the celebrations: everything was insanely larger than life as Sunita and her father, Dr Deepak Pandya, were honoured, mobbed and exalted by Ahmedabad and the nearby villages of Jhulasan and Nadipur.