Sunita Williams
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Status | Active |
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September 19, 1965 Euclid, Ohio |
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Other occupation
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Test pilot |
| Rank | Captain, USN |
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Time in space
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321 days 17 hours 15 minutes |
| Selection | NASA Astronaut Group 17 |
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Total EVAs
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7 |
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Total EVA time
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50 hours and 40 minutes |
| Missions | STS-116, Expedition 14, Expedition 15, STS-117, Soyuz TMA-05M (Expedition 32/33) |
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Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams (born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut and United States Navy officer of Indian-Slovenian descent. She holds the records for total spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes). 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 was born in Euclid, Ohio, to Indian American neuroanatomist Deepak Pandya and Slovene American Ursuline Bonnie Pandya (née Zalokar) residing in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Sunita is the youngest of three siblings; her brother Jay Thomas is four years older and her sister Dina Anna is three years older. Williams’ paternal ancestry is from Jhulasan, Mehsana district in Gujarat, India, while her maternal great-grandmother Mary Bohinc (originally Marija Bohinjec), born September 5, 1883 in Leše, Slovenia, immigrated to America as an eleven-year-old girl with her mother, an 1891 Slovene emigrant Ursula Bohinc née Strajhar.
Williams graduated from Needham High School in Needham, Massachusetts, in 1983. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in physical science from the United States Naval Academy in 1987, and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from Florida Institute of Technology in 1995.
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