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Detailed explanation-1: -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. If playback doesn’t begin shortly, try restarting your device.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sunita Williams, a native of Needham, Massachusetts, was born in Euclid, Ohio, to Mumbai Indian American neuroanatomist Deepak Pandya and Slovene American Ursuline Bonnie (Zalokar) Pandya, who reside in Falmouth, Massachusetts. She was the youngest of three children.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1997, Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to go to space. In 2006, Sunita Williams flew to International Space Station(ISS). Q. Sort the following astronauts in chronological order as they have gone to space.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sunita (Suni) L. Williams was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998 and is a veteran of two space missions, Expeditions 14/15 and 32/33. She is currently training for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission – the first flight with astronauts on Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner.

Detailed explanation-5: -She holds the records for most spacewalks by a women (seven) 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.

Detailed explanation-6: -She is the youngest of three children. Williams’ paternal family is from Jhulasan, Mehsana district in Gujarat, India, while her maternal great-grandmother Mary Bohinc, born in Leše, Slovenia, immigrated to America as an eleven-year-old with her mother.