New Delhi: American astronaut Sunita Williams of Indian origin is ready to go to space once again. Sunita will embark on her third space travel aboard the Starliner spaceship on May 6. She is currently being trained as a pilot for crewed flight test missions on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
The Starliner spaceship will be launched into space with the help of a rocket. The spaceship will be attached to the International Space Station 400 km above Earth. Besides Sunita Williams, Senior Scientist Butch Wilmore has been selected for this mission. Both astronauts will stay in the International Space Station for two weeks.
Sunita's first two missions to the International Space Station
Sunita Williams worked as a flight engineer on Expedition 32 during a very long mission. Apart from this, she has also been the commander of the International Space Station in another mission 'Expedition 33'. Sunita spent a total of 322 days in space during these two missions. Also she spent a total of 50 hours and 40 minutes in space (spacewalk). In this regard, she is second in the list of women astronauts.
Sunita Currently Sunita is preparing for a new mission. This will be the first manned mission of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. He will play the role of a pilot in this mission and this will be his third mission to the International Space Station.
mission 14/15: Sunita's first mission into space
On 9 December 2006, Sunita departed with the crew of STS-116 to begin her first space mission. On December 11, his team reached the International Space Station. Sunita played the role of a flight engineer in this mission.
During this period, she spacewalked 4 times in space with a total time of 29 hours 17 minutes. This was the world record for a female astronaut at the time. However, later in 2008, an astronaut named Peggy Whitson broke this record.
This first mission of Sunita ended with part of 'Expedition 15'. She also returned to Earth in California on June 22, 2007 with the STS-117 crew.
mission 32/33: Sunita's second mission in space
On 14 July 2012, Sunita launched her second space mission from Kazakhstan. She flew into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with her other companions, Yuri Malenchenko and Akihiko Hoshide. His fellow astronauts were from the Russian Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
He was welcomed to the International Space Station on July 17, where NASA's Joe Acaba, Russian astronauts Gennady Padalka (Expedition 32 commander) and Sergey Ravin (flight engineer) were already present. Sunita spent the next four months in the space station doing a lot of research. He returned to Kazakhstan on 18 November 2012 after 127 days in space.
