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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).
Peggy Annette Whitson (born February 9, 1960) is an American biochemistry researcher, and astronaut working for Axiom Space. She retired from NASA in 2018, after serving as Chief Astronaut. [ 3] Over all her missions, Whitson has a total of 665 days in space, more than any other American or woman. [ 4][ 5]
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Williams announced Nov. 9 that he would be leaving NBC News entirely by year’s end — and exactly one month later, the veteran journalist signed off as host of The 11th Hour. As he bid a fond ...
Hate speech against both Sunni and Shia began to be spread on satellite television and high-speed Internet starting in the mid-1990s. [105] Fundamentalist Sunni clerics popularized slurs against Shia such as "Safawis" (from the Safavid empire, thus implying their being Iranian agents), or even worse rafidha (rejecters of the faith), and majus ...
On August 3, 2018, NASA named its first Commercial Crew astronaut cadre of four veteran astronauts to work with SpaceX and Boeing: Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, Sunita Williams, and Douglas Hurley. [70] In July 2018, a test anomaly was reported in which there was a hypergolic propellant leak due to several faulty abort-system valves ...