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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).
Boeing Crew Flight Test ( Boe-CFT) is the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner capsule. Launched on 5 June 2024, the mission flew a crew of two NASA astronauts, Barry E. Wilmore and Sunita Williams, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to the International Space Station. The mission was meant to last eight days, ending with a landing ...
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 ...
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.
The office of the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir is vacant with no elections held since the former state was reorganized in 2019. Only one of the incumbents is a woman — Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, who is serving since 20 March 2011 (for 13 years, 91 days), having the longest continuous incumbency. Kerala 's Pinarayi Vijayan (aged 79 ...
India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 28 states and 8 union territories. [ 1] All states, as well as the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Puducherry and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, have elected legislatures and governments, both patterned on the Westminster model.
See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes. British Virgin Islands – See Virgin Islands (British) . Burma – See Myanmar . Cape Verde – See Cabo Verde . Caribbean Netherlands – See Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba . China, The Republic of – See Taiwan (Province of China) . Democratic People's Republic of Korea – See Korea ...
Population density map of India. India is a union of twenty-eight states and eight union territories. [1] As of 2011, with an estimated population of 1.210 billion, India occupies 2.4 percent of the world's land surface area but is home to 17.5 percent of the world's population. [2]