collect information about the space missions undertaken by sunita Williams
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Expedition 14 and 15
On 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 33
She 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 members
In 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.
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