| Name(s) |
SUNITA Lyn
"Suni" WILLIAMS |
| Date of
Birth |
September 19, 1965 |
|
Identity |
American astronaut
and United States Navy officer of Indian-Slovenian descent.
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- March 2016: By this day, she was No.7 among the list of
most experienced space walkers of the world.
- June 22, 2007: She served
as a mission specialist and returned to Earth on this day,
at the end of the STS-117 mission after a record 192-day
stay in space.
- April 16, 2007: She ran
the first marathon by any person in space.
- November 12, 2010: Her pet dog named Gorby was featured with her on the Dog
Whisperer television show on the National Geographic Channel
on this day.
- September 17, 2012: She became the commander of the International Space
Station on this day, being
only the second woman to achieve this feat.
- June, 2016: As of this date, she
had spent a total of over
321 days in outer space.
- September 2007: She visited India
and went to the
Sabarmati Ashram and her ancestral village Jhulasan in
Gujarat.
- October 04, 2007: Whilst in
India, she met Dr.
Manmohan Singh, the then Prime Minister of India, in New
Delhi.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- She holds the records for total spacewalks
by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time
for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes).
- She is a devotee of Hindu god Ganesha
and carried the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita during
space flights.
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Awards & Accolades |
While on her visit to India in 2007, she was awarded the
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Vishwa Pratibha Award by the
World Gujarati Society, the first person of Indian descent who
was not an Indian citizen to be presented the award. |
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