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Sunita Lyn Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut, United States Navy officer, and former record holder for most spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes).
Sunita Williams, an Indian American NASA astronaut aboard the Boeing Starliner on Wednesday morning, has been known to bring items representing her culture with her to space. Williams, 58, was ...
Sundiata Keita ( Mandinka, Malinke: [sʊndʒæta keɪta]; c. 1217–c. 1255, [ 9] N'Ko spelling: ߛߏ߲߬ߖߘߊ߬ ߞߋߕߊ߬; also known as Manding Diara, Lion of Mali, Sogolon Djata, son of Sogolon, Nare Maghan and Sogo Sogo Simbon Salaba) was a prince and founder of the Mali Empire. He was also the great-uncle of the Malian ruler Mansa Musa ...
In December 2006, American astronaut Sunita Williams took a copy of the Bhagavad Gita to the International Space Station. In July 2012, she took there an Om symbol and a copy of the Upanishads. [25] On 27 February 2021, SDSAT a 3U cubesat launched aboard PSLV-C51 carried a digital copy of Bhagavad Gita into space in an SD card. [26]
Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States (1.34%), behind Christianity (67%) and Judaism (2.07%). [ 1] The 2020 United States census estimated that 1.34% (or 4,453,908) of the population of the United States are Muslim. [ 2] In 2017, twenty states, mostly in the South and Midwest, reported Islam to be the largest non-Christian ...
Being American, like 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume was, does not protect us from the stigma of being Palestinian or Arab, Muslim and from the “Middle East.” Rather, these latter identities keep ...
9780735223325. That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour is a 2019 memoir written by Sunita Puri, a palliative care physician who chronicles her experiences with helping terminally-ill patients and their family members make end-of-life decisions. [ 1] She further explores the dichotomy between modern medicine and palliative care. [ 2]
First Ukrainian American woman in space. STS-115 (Sep. 9, 2006) STS-126 (Nov. 14, 2008) 44 Anousheh Ansari Sep. 12, 1966 Iran / United States: Fourth space tourist and first female space tourist. First Iranian and first Muslim woman in space. Soyuz TMA-9/8 (Sep. 18, 2006) 45 Sunita Williams Sep. 19, 1965 [10] United States