Sunita williams biography in english pdf

  • Summary: Sunita (Suni) L. Williams was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998 and is a veteran of two space missions, Expeditions 14/15 and 32/33.
  • United States Navy Captain Sunita Williams is a highly versatile pilot and astronaut who has set several milestones while in space as both a woman and an Asian.
  • Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut, retired U.S. Navy officer, and one of the most experienced.

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    Sunita Williams (born September 19, 1965 in Euclid, Ohio) is a United States Naval officer and NASA astronaut.

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    Sunita Williams is a NASA astronaut who holds three records for female space travelers: longest spaceflight at 195 days, most spacewalks at four, and longest total time spent on spacewalks at 29 hours and 17 minutes. She was the second woman of Indian heritage and second person of Slovenian heritage to go to space.

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    Sunita Williams is a NASA astronaut who holds three records for female space travelers: longest spaceflight at 195 days, most spacewalks at four, and longest total time spent on spacewalks at 29 hours and 17 minutes. She was the second woman of Indian heritage and second person of Slovenian heritage to g

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    Sunita L. Williams

    Sunita (Suni) L. Williams was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998 and fryst vatten a veteran of two space missions, Expeditions 14/15 and 32/33. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on June 5, 2024 for its first crewed flygning, arriving at the space station on June 6. Following the agency’s decision to return Starliner uncrewed, the duo is currently living and working aboard the space station as part of the Expedition 71/72 crew and will return home in February 2025 aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission.

    Born September 19, 1965 in Euclid, Ohio to Dr. Deepak and Bonnie Pandya.  Considers Needham, Massachusetts to be her hometown. Suni and her husband Michael enjoy hanging out with their dogs, working out, working on houses, working on cars, working on airplanes, hiking and camping.

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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]