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    American astronaut Sunita Williams set records on her two flights to the International Space Station in 2006 and 2012. She spent the most time for a woman outside the spacecraft at over 50 hours and the most days for a woman in space at over 321 days. Williams was born in Ohio in 1965 to an Indian father and Slovenian mother. She joined the U.S. Navy and became a naval aviator and test pilot, logging over 2,770 flight hours. Selected as an astronaut in 1998, Williams conducted multiple spacewalks on both ISS missions and completed a marathon and triathlon in space.

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    American astronaut Sunita Williams set records on her two flights to the International Space Station in 2006 and 2012. She spent the most time for a woman outside the spacecraft at over 50 hours and the most days for a woman in space at over 321 days. Williams was born in Ohio in 1965 to an Indian father and Slovenian mother. She joined the U.S. Navy and became a naval aviator and test pilot, logging over 2,770 flight hours. Selected as an astronaut in 1998, Williams conducted multiple spacewalks on both ISS missions and completed a marathon and triathlon in space.

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    Sunita Williams, 

    in full Sunita Lyn Williams, née Sunita Pandya,  (born September 19, 1965, Euclid, Ohio, U.S.),
    American astronaut who set records on her two flights to the International Space Station (ISS).

    In 1983 Williams entered the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. She was made an ensign in 1987 and
    reported for aviator training at the Naval Aviation Training Command. In July 1989 she began combat helicopter
    training. She flew in helicopter support squadrons during the preparations for the Persian Gulf War and the
    establishment of no-fly zones over Kurdish areas of Iraq, as well as in relief missions during Hurricane Andrew in
    1992 in Miami.

    In 1993 she became a naval test pilot, and she later became a test pilot instructor, flying more than 30 different
    aircraft and logging more than 2,770 flight hours. When selected for the astronaut program, she was stationed aboard
    the USS Saipan.

    Williams completed an M.S. in engineering management from the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne in
    1995, and she entered astronaut training in 1998. She traveled to Moscow, where she received training in robotics
    and other ISS operational technologies while working with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) and with
    crews preparing for expeditions to the ISS.

    NASA
    On December 9, 2006, Williams flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery on the STS-116 mission to the ISS, where
    she was a flight engineer for Expeditions 14 and 15. During her stay at the space station, she made four space walks,
    totaling more than 29 hours outside the spacecraft, and spent a total of more than 195 days in space, both of which
    were records for women in space. (She held the latter record until 2015, when Italian astronaut Samantha
    Cristoforetti spent more than 199 days in space.) She also participated in the Boston Marathon by running 42.2 km
    (26.2 miles) on the station’s treadmill. She was the second American astronaut of Indian heritage to go into space,
    after Kalpana Chawla, who died in the Columbia disaster. Williams landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California
    with the crew of STS-117 on June 22, 2007.

    NASA
    Williams flew to the ISS again on July 15, 2012, as part of the crew of Soyuz TMA-05M. She was a flight engineer on
    Expedition 32, and on September 16 she became commander of Expedition 33. She made three more space walks,
    totaling more than 21 hours, retaining her space walk record with a total time outside the ISS between her two flights
    of more than 50 hours. She also completed a triathlon in orbit by using a treadmill, a stationary bicycle, and a
    weightlifting machine to simulate the swimming portion of the race. Williams returned to Earth on November 11 after
    nearly 127 days in space. Her two spaceflights combined lasted more than 321 days, ranking her second, after
    American astronaut Peggy Whitson, for the most time spent in space by a woman.
    In 2015 Williams was selected as one of four astronauts to make the first test flights in NASA’s Commercial Crew
    program, in which two new private crewed spacecraft, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, would
    take astronauts and supplies to the ISS. She was chosen in 2022 for the first crewed test Starliner flight to the ISS,
    which was scheduled for 2023.

    INTRODUCTION 

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    (born 1965). American astronaut Sunita Williams set records on her two flights to the International Space
    Station (ISS) in 2006 and 2012. She spent the most time for a woman outside the spacecraft and the most days for a
    woman in space (both records were later broken). Williams was the second American astronaut of Indian heritage to
    go into space. Kalpana Chawla was the first. She died when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart as it was
    returning to Earth in 2003.
    EARLY LIFE AND NAVAL CAREER
    Williams was born Sunita Lyn Pandya on September 19, 1965, in Euclid, Ohio. Her father’s family was from India,
    and her mother’s family came from Slovenia. She grew up in Needham, Massachusetts, and entered the U.S. Naval
    Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1983. She received a bachelor’s degree in physical science in 1987. She met
    Michael Williams at the Naval Academy, and they were later married.

    Williams began aviator training at the Naval Aviation Training Command in 1987. Two years later she began combat
    helicopter training. She flew in helicopter support squadrons during the preparations for the Persian Gulf War (1990–
    91) and in relief missions during Hurricane Andrew in 1992 in Miami, Florida. In 1993 Williams became a naval test
    pilot. She later became a test pilot instructor, flying more than 30 different aircraft.

    In 1995 Williams received a master’s degree in engineering management from the Florida Institute of Technology in
    Melbourne. She entered astronaut training in 1998. She then traveled to Moscow, Russia. There she received
    training in robotics and other technologies while working with crews preparing for expeditions to the ISS.

    SPACE CAREER

    NASANASA
    On December 9, 2006, Williams flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery to the ISS. While at the space station, she
    made four space walks that totaled more than 29 hours outside the spacecraft. She spent a total of more than 195
    days in space. Both of these were records for women in space. (She held the record for most days in space for a
    woman until 2015, when Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti spent more than 199 days in space.) In April 2007
    Williams became the first person in space to complete the Boston Marathon by running on the station’s treadmill. She
    returned to Earth at Edwards Air Force Base in California on June 22.

    NASANASA
    Williams flew to the ISS again on July 15, 2012. She was a flight engineer, and on September 16 she became
    commander. She made three more space walks, totaling more than 21 hours. She retained her space walk record
    with a total time outside the ISS of more than 50 hours, counting both her missions. (In 2017 American
    astronaut Peggy Whitson surpassed that record, completing 10 space walks totaling more than 60 hours.) Williams
    also became the first astronaut to complete a triathlon in orbit. She used a treadmill, a stationary bicycle, and a
    weightlifting machine to simulate the swimming portion of the race. She returned to Earth on November 11 after
    nearly 127 days in space. Her two spaceflights combined lasted more than 321 days.

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