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Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams is going to fly into space once again. She will go into space aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which will take off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center at 10 pm tonight. Earlier on May 7, her flight was postponed due to a technical fault in the spacecraft's oxygen valve.
US space agency NASA said, “If all goes well, the Starliner will dock with the International Space Station, after which Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with their colleagues, will stay at the station for about an hour and check the Starliner spacecraft and its subsystems for up to a week.”
Sunita Williams has spent a record 322 days in space and holds the record for being the woman scientist who completed the longest spacewalk. Williams first went to space on 9 December 2006 and remained in space until 22 June 2007. Sunita Williams did four spacewalks for a record 29 hours and 17 minutes.
After this, Sunita Williams went on her second space journey on 14 July 2012 and remained in space till 18 November 2012. 59-year-old Sunita Williams said that she was a little nervous before the flight, but was also excited about flying in the new spacecraft. Williams said that the International Space Station is like a second home for her.
Let us tell you that Sunita Williams is going to fly into space for the third time. This will give her a chance to make history as the first woman to fly on the first crewed mission of the new space shuttle. Sunita said that she is a little nervous, but is excited to fly in the new spacecraft.