Sunita Williams Retires: NASA’s star astronaut Sunita Williams has bid farewell to space career after 27 years of service. NASA gave this information and said that Sunita Williams’ retirement came into effect at the end of December. NASA’s star astronaut Sunita Williams has recently returned from space, who was stuck on the International Space Station for a month.

In fact, Butch Wilmore, Sunita Williams’ crew member in Boeing’s failed capsule test flight, left NASA last summer. Both were sent to the space station in 2024. They were the first people to fly in Boeing’s new Starliner crew capsule. Their mission was supposed to last only a week, but due to problems with the Starliner it stretched to more than nine months. He finally returned home with SpaceX last March.

Sunita Williams is currently 60 years old. Sunita Williams was previously a Navy Captain. He spent more than 27 years at NASA and spent 608 days in space during three station missions. She also set the record for the most spacewalk time by a woman. That means 62 hours by going out nine times. NASA’s new administrator Jared Isaacman called her a pioneer in human space flight. He congratulated him on his retirement.

NASA also has an Indian heart, a glimpse of Indian culture seen outside the earth

When the world of space is mentioned, the imprint of India’s footsteps is found everywhere, where even today it is impossible for big countries to reach. Astronauts have the biggest contribution in flying a new India and fulfilling these dreams of India. Like in recent missions, heroes like Shubhanshu Shukla have made India proud. Along with this, there are many astronauts associated with Indian soil, who may be physically far away, but India resides in their hearts. Among these, the name of Sunita Williams is prominent, who was born on 19 September 1965 in Ohio, America.

Sunita Williams may not have been born in India, but Indian culture and traditions are alive in her actions and thoughts. He preserved these values ​​even in the infinite heights of space. A memorable incident is of her space journey on 6 December 2006, when she took samosas, Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads with her. Sunita Williams had told this incident when she visited India in 2007 after returning from her mission. Sunita Williams met students at the National Science Center in Delhi and shared her experiences of space travel. At the same time samosas and Geeta were mentioned.

This was not the last phase of Sunita Williams’ space travel, when she took Indian culture to space. Sunita Williams’ next mission took place in July 2012. This time she took with her the symbol of Om, a painting of Lord Shiva and a copy of the Upanishad. It is said that he got all this as inheritance from his father, because his father was an Indian. He was a resident of Jhulasan village in Mehsana district of Gujarat, but after studies he went to America and remained there.

When she took the idol of Lord Ganesha with her
June 5, 2024, was Sunita Williams’ third space journey. At that time she took the idol of Lord Ganesha and Geeta into space. Even before going on this journey, she had told that she would take an idol of Lord Ganesha with her, because she considers Lord Ganesha lucky for her.

Sunita is not afraid of challenges
Sunita Williams is such a scientist who is not afraid of challenges, but turns them into opportunities. She presented her example to the world a few months ago, when she was stuck in space for months. After staying for 8 days, he was supposed to return to Earth, but his spacecraft broke down and due to this he spent about 9 months in space. There was a wait to return to Earth, but moving beyond the worries, he did research on growing plants in space. As a follow-up to this success, Williams grew a lettuce plant called ‘Romain Lettuce’ in a zero-gravity environment as part of the ‘Plant Habitat-07’ project.

Sunita Williams’ first space mission
Sunita Williams, selected as a NASA astronaut in 1998, participated in three space missions. Williams’ achievement also includes that she completed a total of 62 hours and 6 minutes of spacewalk time in her career, the most of any female astronaut and fourth on NASA’s all-time list. Sunita Williams spent a total of 608 days in space in her three missions.