About
Sunita Williams
Q1. Who was Sunita
Williams?
Q2. What was the full name of the Sunita Williams at time of
his birth and you can say another name of Sunita?
Sunita Pandya Krishna
Q3. When was she born?
September 19, 1965, Williams was born in Euclid,
Ohio to Deepak Pandya and Bonnie Pandya, who reside in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Q4. On which post Sunita’s father was working?
Deepak Pandya is a well-known neuroanatomis.
Q5. How many women have been selected by NASA for space
mission?
Williams is the second woman of Indian origin to have been
selected by NASA for
a space mission after Kalpana Chawla and the second Astronaut of Slovenian
origin after Ronald M. Sega
Q6. Which record is hold by Sunita?
She holds the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman
(195 days)
Q7. What is the desire of Sunita Williams from Ahmedabad?
Sunita Williams has expressed a desire to adopt a girl from Ahmedabad
Q8. In which year Sunita has been selected by NASA?
Selected by NASA in June 1998, Williams began her training in August 1998.
Q9. What is the rank of Sunita in the Boston
Marathon from the space station?
First, Williams became the first person to run the Boston
Marathon from the space station on April 16, 2007.
And More About Sunita Williams
……………………….Current News
Record-setting Indian-American cosmonaut Sunita Williams along
with two other astronauts on July 17, 2012
Tuesday docked their Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station for
a four-month stay.
46-year-old NASA astronaut Williams, Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri
Malenchenko and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency flight engineer Akihiko Hoshide
arrived at the ISS after two days in orbit.
The trio docked its Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft to the Rassvet
module at around 10:21 IST, NASA said in a statement.
The crew took off to the ISS successfully from Baikonur
cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 15 for a four-month long mission to the space
station
This is the second space mission for Sunita Williams. She also
holds the record of the longest spaceflight —— 195 days —— for woman space
travellers.
The crew which will return home in mid-November is expected to
conduct over 30 scientific missions during their stay aboard the ISS.
Williams, Malenchenko and Hoshide will join current station
residents Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineers Joe Acaba and Sergei
Revin when the hatches open a little over three hours later.
The hatches between the Soyuz and the Rassvet module will open in
about 2—1/2 hours, and Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineers Joe Acaba
and Sergei Revin will greet their new crewmates.
Williams, a flight engineer on the station’s Expedition 32 crew,
will take over as commander of Expedition 33 on reaching the space station.
The six-member crew also will conduct a welcoming ceremony with
family and mission officials then undergo a safety briefing.
The launch and docking of Expedition 32 coincides with the 37th
anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first docking of an American
spacecraft with a Russian spacecraft.