SUNITHA WILLAMS
Sunita Williams
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Sunita Williams
NASA Astronaut
Nationality
American
Status
Retired
Born
September 19, 1965 (age 48)
Euclid, Ohio, U.S.
Other occupation
Test pilot
Rank
Captain, USN
Time in space
321 days 17 hours 15 minutes
Selection
1998 NASA Group
Total EVAs
7
Total EVA time
50 hours and 40 minutes
Missions
STS-116, Expedition 14, Expedition 15, STS-117, Soyuz TMA-05M,Expedition 32, Expedition 33
Mission insignia Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams née Pandya [1] (born September 19, 1965) is a former American astronaut and a United States Navy officer. She holds the records for longest single space flight by a woman (195 days),[2] total spacewalks by a woman (seven), and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes).[3][4]
Williams was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and Expedition 15. In 2012, she served as a flight engineeron Expedition 32 and then commander of Expedition 33.
Contents
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1 Ancestry and early life
2 Military career
3 NASA career
4 Spaceflight experience
4.1 STS-116
4.2 Expeditions 14 and 15
4.3 Expeditions 32 and 33
5 Spacewalks
6 2007 visit to India
7 Personal life
8 Organizations
9 Honors and awards
10 See also
11 References
12 External links
Ancestry and early life[edit]
Sunita Williams was born in Euclid, Ohio, to Indian American neuroanatomist Deepak Pandya and Slovene American Ursuline Bonnie Pandya (née Zalokar), who have three children and reside in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Sunita is the youngest of three siblings, her brother Jay Thomas is four years older and her sister Dina Anna is three years older.
Williams’ paternal ancestry is from Jhulasan, Mehsana district in Gujarat, India, while her maternal great grandmother Mary Bohinc (originally Marija Bohinjec), born 5 September 1890 in Leše, immigrated to America as eleven years old girl with her mother, an 1891 Slovene emigrant Ursula Bohinc née
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sunita Williams
NASA Astronaut
Nationality
American
Status
Retired
Born
September 19, 1965 (age 48)
Euclid, Ohio, U.S.
Other occupation
Test pilot
Rank
Captain, USN
Time in space
321 days 17 hours 15 minutes
Selection
1998 NASA Group
Total EVAs
7
Total EVA time
50 hours and 40 minutes
Missions
STS-116, Expedition 14, Expedition 15, STS-117, Soyuz TMA-05M,Expedition 32, Expedition 33
Mission insignia Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams née Pandya [1] (born September 19, 1965) is a former American astronaut and a United States Navy officer. She holds the records for longest single space flight by a woman (195 days),[2] total spacewalks by a woman (seven), and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes).[3][4]
Williams was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and Expedition 15. In 2012, she served as a flight engineeron Expedition 32 and then commander of Expedition 33.
Contents
[hide]
1 Ancestry and early life
2 Military career
3 NASA career
4 Spaceflight experience
4.1 STS-116
4.2 Expeditions 14 and 15
4.3 Expeditions 32 and 33
5 Spacewalks
6 2007 visit to India
7 Personal life
8 Organizations
9 Honors and awards
10 See also
11 References
12 External links
Ancestry and early life[edit]
Sunita Williams was born in Euclid, Ohio, to Indian American neuroanatomist Deepak Pandya and Slovene American Ursuline Bonnie Pandya (née Zalokar), who have three children and reside in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Sunita is the youngest of three siblings, her brother Jay Thomas is four years older and her sister Dina Anna is three years older.
Williams’ paternal ancestry is from Jhulasan, Mehsana district in Gujarat, India, while her maternal great grandmother Mary Bohinc (originally Marija Bohinjec), born 5 September 1890 in Leše, immigrated to America as eleven years old girl with her mother, an 1891 Slovene emigrant Ursula Bohinc née
References: Williams was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) with STS-116, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, on December 9, 2006, to join the Expedition 14 crew. In April 2007, theRussian members of the crew rotated, changing to Expedition 15. Williams became the first person to run the Boston Marathon from the space station on April 16, 2007.