Sunita Williams (born September 19, 1965 in Euclid, Ohio) is a United States Naval officer and a NASA astronaut. She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15. Williams is the second woman of Indian heritage to have been selected by NASA for a space mission after Kalpana Chawla and the second astronaut of Slovenian heritage after Ronald M. Sega. She holds three records for female space travelers: longest spaceflight (195 days), number of space walks (four), and total time spent on spacewalks (29 hours and 17 minutes).
She is married to Michael J. Williams, she is Indian-Slovenian American and has a pet Jack Russell Terrier named Gorby. Her recreational interests include running, swimming, biking, triathlons, windsurfing, Snowboarding and bow hunting. She is an avid Boston Red Sox fan. Her parents are Deepak Pandya and Bonnie Pandya, who reside in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Dr. Deepak Pandya is a famous neuroanatomist. Williams' roots on her father's side go back to Gujarat in India and she has been to India to visit her father's family. She is of Slovenian descent from her mother's side.
Among the personal items Williams took with her to the International Space Station (ISS) are a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a small figurine of Ganesha and some samosas.
After launching aboard Discovery, Williams arranged to donate her pony tail to Locks of Love. The haircut by fellow astronaut Joan Higginbotham occurred aboard the International Space Station and the ponytail was brought back to earth with the STS-116 crew.
In early March 2007 she received a tube of wasabi in a Progress spacecraft resupply mission in response to her request for more spicy food. Opening the tube, which was packaged at one atmospheric pressure, the gel-like paste was forced out in the lower-pressure of the ISS. In the free-fall environment, the spicy geyser was difficult to contain.
On April 16, 2007, she ran the first marathon by an astronaut in orbit. Williams finished the Boston Marathon in four hours and 24 minutes . The other crew members reportedly cheered her on and gave her oranges during the race. Williams' sister, Dina Pandya, and fellow astronaut Karen L. Nyberg ran the marathon on Earth, and Williams received updates on their progress from Mission Control.
Like many of the other astronauts and cosmonauts she is a licensed amateur radio operator having passed the technician class license exam in 2001 and was issued the call sign KD5PLB by the Federal Communications Commission on 13 Aug 2001.
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Sunita Williams (born September 19, 1965 in Euclid, Ohio) is a United States Naval officer and a NASA astronaut. She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15. Williams is the second woman of Indian heritage to have been selected by NASA for a space mission after Kalpana Chawla and the second astronaut of Slovenian heritage after Ronald M. Sega. She holds three records for female space travelers: longest spaceflight (195 days), number of space walks (four), and total time spent on spacewalks (29 hours and 17 minutes).
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Sunita Williams is alive, and on September 19, 2014, she will be 49 years old. She is still an active astronaut for NASA and holds several records, including highest number of space walks (seven) for a woman.
No , Sunita Williams is alive
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Sunita Williams went in the space shuttle Discovery and came back in Atlantis
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According to a completely fabricated story on the internet, Sunita Williams looked down from the moon and saw the entire earth in darkness except for the Muslim holy cities and converted to Islam upon her return.This is not true. In the first place, Sunita did not go to the moon - she was only on space shuttle missions and space shuttles cannot travel there.She is, and has always been, Hindu.
Sunita Williams is an American astronaut and US Naval officer. There have been rumors on internet that she embraced Islam after returning from her mission in space. However, there is no evidence to suggest so and she has never made any statement to elaborate. In all probability, it is a hoax.
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Yes, Lalpana Chawla was Sunita Williams' friend.
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Sunita Williams is a woman who holds the record of the longest space flight by a woman.
Sunita Williams went in the space shuttle Discovery and came back in Atlantis
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Sunita Williams was a U.S. Naval officer and American astronaut, who holds the record for the longest space flight by a woman.
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