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| Sunita Williams to travel to space |
| Sunita Williams to travel to space again in 2012
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 10-July-2010
2:33:57 AM |
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Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams would travel to space for the second time in June 2012, the NASA announced on Saturday.
Born of Gujarati parents in Euclid, Ohio, Williams, 44, holds the longest space flight of 195 days for space women.
Williams would be joined by flight engineers Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide on Soyuz 31 flight to the space station in June 2010.
The announcement in this regard was made by - NASA and its international partners, the Russia Federal Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which have assigned four new International Space Station crews.
NASA said William would become the commander of the International Space Station in October 2012.
Selected by NASA in June 1998, Williams served as a flight engineer aboard the International Space Station. She launched with the crew of STS-116 on December 9, 2006, docking with the station on December 11, 2006.
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