Sunita Williams Set To Fly For 3rd Space Mission
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Indian-origin astronaut Captain Sunita Williams is ready to fly into space once again, and this time on a brand-new spacecraft, the Boeing Starliner
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The liftoff is scheduled to take place from the Kennedy Space Center on tomorrow at 8:04 am
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Born to Dr Deepak Pandya and Bonnie Pandya, the 59-year-old will create history by being the first woman to fly on a maiden mission of a new human-rated spacecraft
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She has flown twice to space in 2006 and 2012, and according to data from NASA, she has spent a cumulative total of 322 days in space
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At one time, she used to hold the record for maximum spacewalk time by a female astronaut as she has spent 50 hours and 40 minutes across 7 spacewalks
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Sunita Williams's father was a neuroanatomist born in Gujarat, but later migrated to the USA and married Bonnie Pandya, a Slovenian
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NASA says she is currently preparing to be the pilot of the Crew Flight Test mission aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft
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She has said she will carry a statue of Lord Ganesh with her on the commercial crew flight as "Ganesh is her good luck charm"
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On her earlier flights, she has carried copies of the Bhagavad Gita to space
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