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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]
Ivan Aguéli – Swedish wandering Sufi, painter and author. Malik Ambar – Siddi military leader, who served as the Peshwa (Prime Minister) of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate. Campbell Mustafa Ağa – Scottish convert to Islam who from 1775 was the chief instructor in the new Ottoman naval mathematical academy (the Hendishâne).
Expedition 72. Expedition 72 is the 72nd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). The expedition began with the departure of Soyuz MS-25 on 23 September 2024 and is led by Sunita Williams, her second time serving as commander of the ISS. [1]
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.
They will now return to Earth in February 2025 with SpaceX. In Jhulasan, locals hold daily prayers for Williams' safe return, keeping an oil lamp burning as a symbol of their hopes. For her 59th ...
Flight Engineer Sunita Williams was the first Expedition 15 crew member to arrive. She participated in Expedition 14, until Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin assumed command of the station. Williams arrived at the station on 11 December 2006, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery flight STS-116.
STS-116 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. Discovery lifted off on December 9, 2006, at 20:47:35 EST. A previous launch attempt on December 7 had been canceled due to cloud cover. It was the first night launch of a Space Shuttle since STS-113 in November 2002.
18 (2000) →. NASA Astronaut Group 17, were chosen by NASA in 1998 and announced on June 4 of that year. [1] The group of 32 candidates included eight pilots, 17 mission specialists, and seven international mission specialists who became NASA astronauts. They began training in August 1998.