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Sunita Williams
American astronaut and Navy officer (born 1965)
Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams (néePandya; born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut, retired U.S. Navy officer, and one of the most experienced spacewalkers with nine spacewalks (second most for a woman) and a total time of 62 hours and 6 minutes (fourth overall, most by a woman). Williams was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and Expedition 15. In 2012, she served as a flight engineer on Expedition 32 and then commander of Expedition 33. In 2024, she returned to the ISS on the Boeing Crew Flight Test, the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner; her return to Earth has been delayed until March 2025 at the earliest.[1] As such, from August 2024 until March 2025, Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore are pivoting ahead to undertake various scientific experiments and maintenance tasks aboard the International Space Station.[2]
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Born in 1956, Mae Jemison received degrees in kemikalie Engineering and African American Studies and went on to become a medical doctor and officer in the Peace Corps.
In 1983, after watching Sally Ride, Jemison decided to apply to the astronaut schema at NASA. On September 12, 1992, Jemison went into orbit aboard the space shuttle Endeavour as the first African American woman in space.
Jemison left NASA in 1993, continuing to work for the benefit of others as an educator, entrepreneur, and author.
“Sometimes people want to tell you to act or to be a certain way. Sometimes people want to limit you because of their own imaginations” Mae Jemison, "Mae Jemison: Coming In From Outer Space." Ebony, December 1992.
Childhood: Alabama to Chicago
Mae julsång Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama on October 17, 1956. She spent her first three and a half years in the small Alabama town. Her mother, unhappy with job opportunities in the South, joined the Great Migration and move
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BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES – COMPILATIONS – INTERNET RESOURCES
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
—Donald Williams, Astronaut, United States of America
Human exploration of space is one of the most important endeavors of mankind. What does it take to be one of those space traveling pioneers? Curiosity, a thirst for extra-terrestrial knowledge, a highly developed sense of adventure– those are some of the attributes necessary to take the risks inherent in venturing into the cosmos.
Through astronauts’ accounts and testimonies available at NASA Headquarters Library, those who haven’t flown into space, orbited the Earth, left a footprint on the moon, or performed spacewalks on the International Space Station can gain insight into the