Sunita Lyn “Suni” Williams(born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut and United States Navy officer of Indian-Slovenian descent. She holds the records for total spacewalks by a woman and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes).Williams was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and Expedition 15. In 2012, she served as a flight engineer on Expedition 32 and then commander of Expedition 33.
Sunita Williams was born in Euclid, Ohio, to Indian American neuroanatomist Deepak Pandya and Slovene American Ursuline Bonnie Pandya residing in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Sunita is the youngest of three siblings; her brother Jay Thomas is four years older and her sister Dina Anna is three years older. Williams’ paternal ancestry is from Jhulasan, Mehsana district in Gujarat, India, while her maternal great-grandmother Mary Bohinc (originally Marija Bohinjec), born September 5, 1890 in Leše, Slovenia immigrated to America as an eleven-year-old girl with her mother, an 1891 Slovene emigrant Ursula Bohinc née Strajhar.
Williams graduated from Needham High School in Needham, Massachusetts, in 1983. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in physical science from the United States Naval Academy in 1987, and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from Florida Institute of Technology in 1995.
Honors and awards
Navy Commendation Medal
Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal
Humanitarian Service Medal
National Defense Service Medal
NASA Spaceflight Medal
Medal “For Merit in Space Exploration”, Government of Russia (2011)
Padma Bhushan, Government of India (2008)
Honorary Doctorate, Gujarat Technological University (2013)
Golden Order for Merits, Government of Slovenia (2013)
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