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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 ...
Wilmore and Williams blasted off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on June 5. During approach to the space station the next day, five aft-facing thrusters provided lower thrust than expected and four helium ...
Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore pose for the Starliner CFT crew portrait. Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will transport NASA astronauts. The company calls it the Crew Space Transportation (CST ...
Expedition 33 Commander Sunita Williams competes in the Malibu triathlon from space in 2012. - NASA That feat came after she ran along with the Boston Marathon from the space station in 2007.
Due to its delays, several astronauts originally assigned to Starliner-1 were reassigned to other missions: In 2018, Sunita Williams was planned to fly on Starliner-1, [11] she was later reassigned to the earlier CFT. Jeanette Epps was added to the Starliner-1 mission on 25 August 2020 [12] but reassigned to SpaceX Crew-8 in August 2023. [13]
Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams are slated to pilot the company’s Starliner capsule on its first crewed test flight to the International Space Station on May 6.
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.