{"id":730,"date":"2016-07-02T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2020-10-04T13:45:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T13:45:45","slug":"sunita-williams-space-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/sunita-williams-space-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunita Williams, Space Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunita Williams is an American astronaut who was a member of the Expedition 14 and 15 carried out by the International Space Station.<\/span><\/p>\n

She served as a flight engineer in Expedition 32 and as flight commander in Expedition 34 in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

She was born on September 19, 1965 to Indian scientist Deepak Pandya and Ursuline Bonnie Pandya, who is of Slovene American origin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her paternal ancestry is from Mehsana district in Gujarat and her mother is a Slovene emigrant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunita graduated from Massachusetts with a degree in Physical Science in 1983 and gained a Master\u2019s degree in Engineering Management from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1995.<\/span><\/p>\n

She joined the United States Navy in May 1987 and after completing a six month assignment she was given the designation of Basic Diving Officer.<\/span><\/p>\n

In July 1989, she joined the Naval Air Training Command to attain the title of Naval Aviator.<\/span><\/p>\n

She was selected for the NASA astronaut programme in 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the NASA programme, Sunita received her training at the Johnsons Space Centre in 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n

After completing the training, she worked with the Russian Space Agency and was part of missions sent by the ISS.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her first space experience was with the STS 116 launched by the International Space Station. She went aboard the Discovery in 2006 to join crew members on Expedition 14.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the expedition, Sunita, after many attempts, completed a spacewalk of 32 hours and 36 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2007, she also ran the first marathon by a person in orbit, which she completed in four hours and 24 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

In April 2007, Sunita was brought back to the Earth aboard the Atlantis, during which she broke the record for single spaceflight by a woman.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2012, Sunita was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome as a part of the Expedition 32\/33. On this mission, she was accompanied by Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malechenko.<\/span><\/p>\n

She became the second woman to become the Commander of the International Space Station in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, in September 2012, she became the first person to perform a triathlon in space and completed the task in 48 minutes and 33 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n

She returned back to Earth in November 2012 and landed at the Arkalyk in Kazakhstan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Till November 2012, Sunita made seven spacewalks in a total time of 50 hours and 40 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

It holds the fifth position among the world\u2019s experienced spacewalkers.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2007, Sunita Williams visited India and paid visits to the Sabarmati Ashram and her paternal village in Jhulasan.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is also the first person of Indian origin but not of Indian citizenship to be awarded the Sardar Vallabhai Patel Vishwa Pratibha Award conferred by the World Gujarati Society.<\/span><\/p>\n

She holds several records for the highest number of spacewalks by a woman, the longest spaceflight time by a woman and the maximum spacewalk time by a woman.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunita Williams is an American astronaut who was a member of the Expedition 14 and 15 carried out by the International Space Station. She served as a flight engineer in Expedition 32 and as flight commander in Expedition 34 in 2012. She was born on September 19, 1965 to Indian scientist Deepak Pandya and Ursuline … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-greatest-indian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}