Sunita Williams

Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams is an American astronaut and a retired U.S. Navy officer. Williams served aboard the International Space Station as a participant in Expedition 14, a flight engineer for Expedition 15 and Expedition 32, and commander of Expedition 33. A member of NASA’s Commercial Crew program, she became the first woman to fly on a flight test of an orbital spacecraft during the 2024 Boeing Crew Flight Test and had her stay extended by technical problems aboard the ISS for more than nine months. She is one of the most experienced spacewalkers: her nine spacewalks are second-most by a woman, and her total spacewalk time of 62 hours and 6 minutes is fourth overall and the most by a woman.

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1965  Wikimedia, Wikidata
Sunita L. Williams; Sunita Lyn Williams
naval aviator, athletics competitor, naval officer, test pilot, flight engineer, engineer, astronaut, 

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  Boeing Crew Flight Test ⓘ
  crewed mission of Boeing Starliner to the International Space Station

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  Soyuz TMA-05M ⓘ
  114th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft

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  SpaceX Crew-9 ⓘ
  NASA Commercial Crew Program mission to the International Space Station

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  STS-116 ⓘ
  human spaceflight

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  STS-117 ⓘ
  human spaceflight

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  Expedition 72 ⓘ
  72nd long-duration mission to the International Space Station

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  Expedition 14 ⓘ
  expedition to the International Space Station

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  Expedition 15 ⓘ
  expedition to the International Space Station

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  Expedition 32 ⓘ
  expedition to the International Space Station

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  Expedition 33 ⓘ
  expedition to the International Space Station

United States, 

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1965 Sunita Williams

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2006 — 2007 Expedition 14

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2007 Expedition 15

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2012 Expedition 32

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2012-11-18T00:00:00Z

2012 Expedition 33

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
class	orbit		Boeing Crew Flight Test	Barry E. Wilmore, Sunita Williams, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		Soyuz TMA-05M	Akihiko Hoshide, Soyuz TMA-M, Sunita Williams, Yuri Malenchenko, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		SpaceX Crew-9	Aleksandr Gorbunov, Barry E. Wilmore, Nick Hague, Stephanie Wilson, Sunita Williams, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-116	Christer Fuglesang, Joan Higginbotham, Mark L. Polansky, Nicholas Patrick, Robert Curbeam, Sunita Williams, Thomas Reiter, William Oefelein, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-117	Clayton Anderson, Frederick W. Sturckow, James F. Reilly, John Danny Olivas, Lee Archambault, Patrick Forrester, Steven Swanson, Sunita Williams, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight		Expedition 72	Aleksey Ovchinin, Donald Pettit, Ivan Vagner, Nichole Ayers, Nick Hague, Sunita Williams, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2006	Expedition 14	Michael López-Alegría, Mikhail Tyurin, Sunita Williams, Thomas Reiter, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2007	Expedition 15	Clayton Anderson, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Oleg Kotov, Sunita Williams, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2012	Expedition 32	Akihiko Hoshide, Gennady Padalka, Joseph M. Acaba, Sergey Revin, Sunita Williams, Yuri Malenchenko, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2012	Expedition 33	Akihiko Hoshide, Kevin A. Ford, Oleg Novitskiy, Sunita Williams, Yevgeny Tarelkin, Yuri Malenchenko, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
commons	image		Iss072-s-002		Commons
commons	image		KSC-20221018-PH KLS01 0022		Commons
commons	image		Raft Class 170210-F-HU835-111		Commons
commons	image		Sunita Williams with Narayan Ramdas Iyer		Commons
commons	image		Suit up 170210-F-HU835-158		Commons
commons	image		ISS Expedition 14 crew poster		Commons
commons	image		Suni Williams 170210-F-HU835-500		Commons
commons	image		KSC-20221018-PH KLS01 0222 (cropped)		Commons
commons	image		Speaking about space 170208-F-HU835-001		Commons
commons	image		Sunita Williams 170208-F-HU835-004		Commons