Indian origin Astronaut Sunita Williams
Houston: Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams has left for space for the third time with another colleague. With this, both of them created history by becoming the first members to go to the International Space Station in Boeing Company’s Starliner spacecraft. Boeing’s ‘Crew Flight Test Mission’ carrying Williams and Butch Wilmore took off from Florida’s ‘Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’ after several delays. Williams also made history as the first woman to go on such a mission.
when will you return
The trip for Williams and Wilmore is expected to take 25 hours. The spacecraft will arrive at the space station on Thursday. The two will spend more than a week aboard the orbiting laboratory and will then reboard the Starliner spacecraft for a return landing in a remote desert in the western US on June 14.
Sunita Williams has experience
Sunita Williams was selected by NASA as an astronaut in 1988 and has experience in two space missions. She served as the flight engineer of Expedition 32 and the commander of Expedition 33.
Sunita’s first trip
During her first spacewalk, Expedition 14/15, Williams flew with the STS-116 crew on December 9, 2006, and arrived at the International Space Station on December 11, 2006. In her first spacewalk, she set a world record for women by completing four spacewalks for a total of 29 hours and 17 minutes. This record was later broken by astronaut Peggy Whitson in 2008 by completing five spacewalks.
Sunita’s second visit
Williams launched into space on July 14, 2012, from the Baikonur Cosmodron in Kazakhstan, along with Russian Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency flight engineer Akihiko Hoshide, during Expedition 32/33. Williams spent four months conducting research and exploration aboard the orbiting laboratory. She arrived in Kazakhstan on November 18, 2012, after spending 127 days in space. During their mission, Williams and Hoshide conducted three spacewalks and fixed an ammonia leak in the station’s radiator. With a spacewalk of 50 hours and 40 minutes, Williams once again set the world record for the longest spacewalk by a female astronaut.
Also know this
Williams was born in Euclid, Ohio, to Indian-American neuroanatomist Deepak Pandya and Slovenian-American Ursuline Bonnie Pandya. She holds a Bachelor of Physics degree from the US Naval Academy and a Master of Science in Engineering Management from the Florida Institute of Technology.
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