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Williams's paternal family is from Jhulasan in the Mehsana district [9] whereas her maternal family is of Slovene descent. [10] Williams has taken the Slovenian flag, [11] a samosa and Carniolan sausage to space in celebration of her Indian and Slovenian heritage. [12] Her nicknames are Suni in the United States [8] and Sončka in Slovenia. [13]
Indian village prays for astronaut Sunita Williams' safe return September 19, 2024 at 8:26 AM A group of women in Jhulasan have been offering daily prayers for Sunita Williams [Kushal Batunge]
A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories. Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at different scales, and the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from the map. The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states ...
As of 2024, Four people of Indian origin have been in space. The first astronaut of the Indian nationality, in space was Rakesh Sharma on Soyuz T-11 in 1984. [1][2] Three astronauts – Kalpana Chawla, [3][4] Sunita Williams [5] and Raja Chari [6][7] – flew as NASA astronauts. Sirisha Bandla is the first and only Indian-born woman to make a ...
Williams, whose father is Indian and mother is of Slovenian descent, has been open about the importance of her heritage. While on Expedition 32/33 in 2012, she also sent out a greeting from space ...
Expedition 15 was the 15th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). Four crew members participated in the expedition, although for most of the expedition's duration only three were on the station at any one time. During Expedition 15, the ISS Integrated Truss Structure was expanded twice: STS-117 brought the S3/S4 truss, and STS-118 ...
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Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States (1.1%), behind Christianity (67%) and Judaism (2.07%). [1] The Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies in its 2017 US Religion census estimated that 1.1% (or 3,450,000) of the population of the United States are Muslim. [2] In 2017, twenty states, mostly in the South and ...