About Sunita Williams

About Sunita Williams

Q1.  Who was Sunita Williams?

Sunita Williams is an American astronaut and United States Navy officer.

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.