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Indian-origin Sunita Williams created history by flying into space for the third time | Live Updates, Unveiling the Latest India News Trends

Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams has embarked on her third space journey with another colleague. Both of them departed from the International Space Force Station Canaveral aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. Thus, Sunita Williams created history as the first woman to go on a mission.

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The journey of Sunita Williams and Wilmore is expected to take 25 hours. The spacecraft will reach the space station next Thursday. The two will spend more than a week in the orbiting laboratory and then land in a remote desert region of the western United States to return on June 14.

This is Sunita's second visit

On Expedition 32/33, Williams launched into space on July 14, 2012 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with Russian Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency flight engineer Akihiko Hoshide. At that time, Williams spent four months conducting research aboard the orbiting laboratory. It arrived in Kazakhstan on November 18, 2012 after spending 127 days in space. During their mission, Williams and Hoshide performed three spacewalks and repaired an ammonia leak from the station's radiator. With a spacewalk of 50 hours and 40 minutes, Williams once again held the world record for the longest spacewalk by a female astronaut.

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Williams was born in Euclid, Ohio, to Indian-American neuroanatomist Deepak Pandya and Slovenian-American Ursuline Bonnie Pandya. She has a degree in physics from the US Naval Academy and a Master of Science degree in engineering management from the Florida Institute of Technology.