United States Naval Academy (BS) Florida Institute of Technology (MS)
Relatives
Deepak Pandya (father)
Space career
NASA astronaut
Rank
Captain, USN
Time in space
321d 17h 15m
Selection
NASA Group 17 (1998)
Total EVAs
7
Total EVA time
50h 40m
Missions
STS-116/117 (Expedition 14/15) Soyuz TMA-05M (Expedition 32/33) Boeing Crewed Flight Test
Mission insignia
Sunita Lyn Williams (néePandya; born September 19, 1965), nicknamed Suni in the United States and Sončka in Slovenia,[1] is an American astronaut, United States Navy officer, and former record holder for most spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes).[2][3][4][5][6][7] Williams was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and Expedition 15. In 2012, she served as a flight engineer on Expedition 32 and then commander of Expedition 33.
^"Sunita Williams: Najljubša mi je Zemlja, ker je na njej Slovenija" [Sunita Williams: My Favourite Place Is Earth Because Slovenia Is on It]. Žurnal24.si (in Slovenian). April 18, 2021.
^"Astronaut Biography: Sunita Williams". SpaceFacts.de. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
^"Astronaut Biography" (PDF). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Houston, Texas. August 2018.
^Garcia, Mark. "Peggy Whitson Breaks Spacewalking Record". NASA blog. NASA. Archived from the original on May 21, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
^NASA (2007). "Sunita L. Williams (Commander, USN)" (PDF). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved December 19, 2007.
^"Spacewalking astronauts conquer stiff bolt, install key power unit on 2nd trip outside". Associated Press. 2012. Archived from the original on September 8, 2012. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
^Tariq Malik (2007). "Orbital Champ: ISS Astronaut Sets New U.S. Spacewalk Record". Space.com. Retrieved December 19, 2007.
Sunita Lyn Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965), nicknamed Suni in the United States and Sončka in Slovenia, is an American astronaut, United...
macaque using tract-tracing methods. He is the father of NASA astronaut SunitaWilliams. He was born at Jhulasan, Mehsana District, Gujarat in India. He was...
Rakesh Sharma on Soyuz T-11 in 1984. Three astronauts – Kalpana Chawla, SunitaWilliams and Raja Chari – flew as NASA astronauts. Sirisha Bandla is the first...
Crewed Flight Test (consisting of NASA astronauts, Barry Wilmore and SunitaWilliams) is supposed to dock during the expedition. Previous mission: Expedition...
Space Station Missions". NASA. Retrieved 8 July 2010. "Astronaut Bio: SunitaWilliams". NASA. Retrieved 19 February 2011. "Selection of Astronaut Akihiko...
Starliner astronauts, including Barry Wilmore, Michael Fincke, and SunitaWilliams, will fly on this mission or the first operational Starliner mission...
Space Station Missions". NASA. Retrieved 8 July 2010. Astronaut Bio: SunitaWilliams Selection of Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide as a Member of the ISS Expedition...
mission STS-121. In December 2006, Discovery mission STS-116 brought SunitaWilliams to replace Reiter as the third member of Expedition 14. On 21 April...
the S3/S4 truss, and STS-118 brought the S5 truss. Flight Engineer SunitaWilliams was the first Expedition 15 crew member to arrive. She participated...
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astronauts to work with SpaceX and Boeing: Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, SunitaWilliams, and Douglas Hurley. In July 2018, a test anomaly was reported in which...
Transferred from Expedition 13 21 December 2006 22:32 UTC STS-116 171.16 SunitaWilliams 10 December 2006 01:47 UTC STS-116 Transferred to Expedition 15 Expedition...
flight of Starliner to the ISS. After the announcement, NASA astronaut SunitaWilliams, commander of Starliner-1, named the spacecraft Calypso after Jacques-Yves...
go past the line of space after Rakesh Sharma, Kalpana Chawla and SunitaWilliams. Bandla was born into a Telugu Hindu[citation needed] family in the...
posthumously awarded Bronze Star and Purple Heart gallantry awards SunitaWilliams (b. 1965), astronaut and former Navy officer Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan...
Station as a tribute to Ramon. In December 2006, American astronaut SunitaWilliams took a copy of the Bhagavad Gita to the International Space Station...
original on 8 December 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2012. Williams, Sunita. "Journal of SunitaWilliams". Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved...
Solovyev only launched on Atlantis. Similarly, astronauts Daniel Tani and SunitaWilliams, as well as cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov only...
(1960-) 1994 NASA Group 15 September 2006 October 2009 Janet Kavandi and SunitaWilliams (February 2008 to October 2009). Lindsey resigned when he was assigned...
"Salute"), is under pre-production since 2018. Gaganyaan Kalpana Chawla SunitaWilliams Ravish Malhotra P. Radhakrishnan "Cosmonaut Biography: Rakesh Sharma"...
1959) is a retired NASA astronaut. Launched on STS-117, he replaced SunitaWilliams on June 10, 2007, as a member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew. He is...
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