Sunita Williams
American astronaut and USN officer · United States · Scientists · Born 1965 · age 61
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Something wrong?Sunita Lyn Williams is a retired United States Navy captain and former NASA astronaut. Williams served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 14, Expedition 15, Expedition 32, and Expedition 71 and commander of Expedition 33 and Expedition 72.
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Astronaut Sunita L. Williams, STS-116 mission specialist, participates in the mission's third planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA)
Williams became the first person to run a marathon from the space station on April 16, 2007
Joan Higginbotham and Williams work the controls of the Canadarm2 in the ISS's Destiny Laboratory
Williams exercises on COLBERT during ISS Expedition 32
Williams appears to touch the bright Sun during a spacewalk conducted on September 5, 2012.
NASA astronauts - retired Navy Capts Suni Williams & Butch Wilmore, Space Force Col. Nick Hague - and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov land in a Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Tallahassee, FL., March 18, 2025.
Williams with Slovenian Defense Minister Ljubica Jelušič (2009)In their own words 2
, India looks like a jewel from Space.
Travel is always surprising. You can never read enough about a destination in a book to understand or to see what it's like until you get there.
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Sunita Lyn Williams is a retired United States Navy captain and former NASA astronaut. Williams served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 14, Expedition 15, Expedition 32, and Expedition 71 and commander of Expedition 33 and Expedition 72. A member of NASA's Commercial Crew program, she became the first woman to fly on a flight test of an orbital spacecraft during the 2024 Boeing Crew Flight Test and had her stay extended by technical problems aboard the ISS for more than nine months. She is one of the most experienced spacewalkers: her nine spacewalks are second-most by a woman, and her total spacewalk time of 62 hours and 6 minutes is fourth overall and the most by a woman.
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