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Sunita Williams who holds the records for longest single space flight by women, maximum spacewalks by women and most spacewalk time for a women will be celebrating her 53rd birthday on 19th September. She has proven to be a twinkling star on Earth. Let’s know her successful story…
About early life
Sunita Lyn Williams is an American astronaut and United State Navy officer of Indian- Slovenian descent. She was born on September 19, 1965 in Euclid, Ohio in USA to an Indian American neuroanatomist Mr. Deepak Pandya and Mrs. Bonnie Pandya.
Early Career
Williams received her commission in the United States Navy in May 1987 as a Basic Diving Officer.
In September 1992 she was the Officer-in-Charge of an H-46 detachment sent to Miami, Florida and from there she was selected for United States Naval Test Pilot School as an Instructor in the Rotary Wing Department and the school’s Safety Officer. There she flew the UH-60, OH-6 and the OH-58. From there she was assigned as the Aircraft Handler and the Assistant Air Boss.
Williams was deployed on Saipan in June 1998 when she was selected by NASA for the astronaut program. Before selected by NASA she has logged more than 3000 flight hours in more than 30 aircraft types.
Career at NASA
Sunita Williams began her astronaut candidate training at the Johnson Space center in August 1998. She was the part of the following expeditions.
Expedition 14 and 15On December 9, 2006 she was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) with STS-116, aboard the space shuttle Discovery to join the Expedition 14 crew.
In April 2007, the Russian members of the crew rotated, changing to Expedition 15. After launching aboard the Shuttle Discovery.
She performed her first extra-vehicular activity on the eighth day of the STS-116 mission. On January 31, February 4 and February 9, 2007 she completed 3 more space walks from the ISS and in her third spacewalk she was outside the station for 6 hours and 40 minutes. She logged 29 hours and 17 minutes in 4 spacewalks.
On April 26, 2007 NASA decided to bring Williams back to Earth on STS-117 mission aboard Atlantis. She served as a mission specialist and returned to Earth on June 22, 2007 and when the Atlantis touched the earth at 3:49p.m. EDT in California, Williams was at home after a record 192 day stay in Space.
Expedition 32 and 33She again took a spaceflight on July 15, 2012 as a part of Expedition 32/33. Her Russian spacecraft Soyuz docked with the ISS for a four month stay. Williams became the commander of the ISS during her stay onboard ISS Expedition 33 on September 17, 2012, being only the 2nd women to achieve that feat.
She returned to the Earth on November 19, 2012.
Commercial crew membersIn July 2015, NASA announced Williams as one of the first astronauts for U.S. Commercial spaceflights. Subsequently, she had started working with Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX’s Dragon to train in their commercial crew vehicles, along with other three astronauts.
Records
In her two space missions she had set numerous records and achieved several milestones. Some of them are following:
Maximum number of space walks by women – Seven
Most spacewalk time for women – 50 hours and 40 minutes
Spent a total of 322 days in space on two missions and ranks 6th on the all-time U.S. endurance list and 2nd all time for a female astronaut.
Holds the record of longest spaceflight (195 days) for female space travelers.
Answer: Sunita Williams, a native of Needham, has traveled far beyond Massachusetts as part of her work as an astronaut at the International Space Station. She served as the commander of the space station in 2012, and has spent a total 322 days in space. She also has spent more than 50 hours on space walks alone.
In this 2004 photo provided by NASA, astronaut Sunita Williams poses for a photo. (NASA via AP)
She is featured in the new documentary film "The Mars Generation," which looks at a new generation of teenagers who are preparing to go to Mars in this century.
"The Mars Generation" is playing at theWoods Hole Film Festival on Sunday at 5 p.m. Williams will also be speaking on a panel about science and storytelling on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Guests
Sunita Williams, American astronaut and former commander of the International Space Station. She tweets @Astro_Suni.
Interview Highlights
On her path to becoming an astronaut
It was a little bit of a happenstance, and a lot of good luck, and a lot of perseverance. I wanted to be a veterinarian, and go to school in Boston. It didn't quite work out that way, and I ended up joining the Navy as a suggestion of my big brother. It was really awesome, and I didn't realize it at the time, but provided a lot of leadership and followership teamwork opportunities. And it led me down the path to become a helicopter pilot and a test pilot. It was the shoe in the door to making me understand that, hey — things are possible. And I got down to NASA at Johnson Space Center and realized that I could do the things those guys were doing, like anybody can when they have that opportunity and take it.
On her time as a commander on the International Space Station
It was awesome. A huge responsibility. But just like in the movie "The Martian," you take it one step at a time. You don't look at the big problem all together, because I think it's a little intimidating. So you just take it one day at a time, meet the people who are going to meet with you, for you, and who you're going to work for, and really try to do the best job that you can. That's all teamwork, and that's what space travel is about.
On what it's like to do a spacewalk
It's a little scary at times, when it's just your visor between you and the outside, not-so-nice area of space where there's no air to breathe — a vacuum that's really hot, and really cold. So that's scary. But you take it one step at a time. You have a lot of things to do when you're out on a space walk, and that sort of overwhelms your mind. You're like, "I've got to get this test done, and this test done." But you can't help every now and then stopping, and looking at where you are, and watching the world whiz by you — and just going, "Whoah! But — never mind — just keep working, just keep working." It is an incredible view, an incredible place to work, and it's the culmination of a huge team of people making it work for the astronauts who are just out there doing their jobs.
On what her time in space has taught her about the challenges facing potential Mars astronauts
You are away from home, and you do miss your family and your friends, and of course I missed my dog. But you have the ability to call home, and the ability to video conference on the weekends. We're close to Earth, and we only have about a half-second of delay when we're talking. But when you take that trip and are going to Mars, you're going to have a long delay. You're not going to be able to have those instant conversations. You're going to need to know how to fix things without calling home to ask how to do it. So there's going to be a lot of different challenges for that crew, and that crew needs to know that they'll be gone for a long time. I knew I would be gone for 6 months, and maybe a little bit more. [People going to Mars] need to go into this knowing that you might be gone for a year and a half or so. You're not going to be able to text to your friends and family like people are used to doing here. It's going to take a little while to get that communication back and forth.