Sunita Williams born September 19, 1965 is a United States Naval officer and a NASA astronaut. She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15. She holds the record of the longest spaceflight 195 days for female space travelers.She was selected to appear on the Colbert Report to announce the name for Node 3 of the ISS.
The considers Needham, Massachusetts to be her hometown. Married to Michael J. Williams. Although they have no children, a crazy Jack Russell Terrier named Gorby has added his share of excitement to their lives. Recreational interests include running, swimming, biking, triathlons, windsurfing, snowboarding and bow hunting. Her parents, Dr. Deepak and Mrs. Bonnie Pandya, reside in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Williams, a US astronaut of Indian origin, who returned to the earth recently after197 days’ stay on space station along with her other four crew members, has accepted Islam, according to unconfirmed sources. Though her embracing Islam has not been officially.
KOZHIKODE: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has been named as the ‘Woman of the Decade’ in an online survey conducted by leading Malayalam daily, the Mathrubhumi’s women’s online site on the occasion of the world’s Women’s Day.
Sonia Gandhi secured 53% votes in the survey conducted by the daily’s ‘mb4eves.com’ followed by Mayilamma, the woman activist who spearheaded the agitation against soft drink major Coca Cola over the exploitation of underground water at Plachimada in Palakkad district of Kerala.
Williams, who grew up in Needham and is a Needham High School graduate, broke the previous women’s spacewalking record of more than 21 hours when she and Michael Lopez-Alegria completed the second of what could be a precedent-setting three spacewalks in nine days. The record of 22 hours and 27 minutes includes her two most recent walks, as well as a spacewalk in December.
