Great Day for Indian-Americans! SUNITA PANDYA WILLIAMS NASA Astronaut IndianAmericanOrg Blog Sam Rao Dec 10

Great Day for Indian-Americans! SUNITA PANDYA WILLIAMS NASA Astronaut IndianAmericanOrg Blog Sam Rao

December 11th, 2006 by desivoxpopulis
www.indian-american.org

Dec 10, 2006
Great day for Indian-Americans as SUNITA PANDYA WILLIAMS- the 2nd Indian American is part of the NASA Shuttle Crew STS 116
After Conmmander KALPANA CHAWLA, SUNITA PANDYA WILIAMS represents The Indian American community proudly and the Whole World is proud of her achievement.
I met KALPANA CHAWLA in 1999 when I hosted her community reception in Santa Clara, CA.- after her maiden voyage on the space shuttle.
Surprisingly, she revealed that NO Indian American organization had hosted her - inspite of the dozens of Parades and functions held at a drop of a hat.

ASIAN WEEK STORY abt KALANA CHAWLA
http://www.asianweek.com/2003_02_07/news_firstindian.html

KALPANA CHAWLA was a heroine and so is SUNITA WILLIAMS. Hopefully, we alla ccord her a much better Welcome and salute her!!!

Sunita Pandya Williams

Indian American Flight Engineer SpecialistSUNITA WILLIAMS is scheduled to spend upto 6 months in Space abroad the Int’l Space Station

Sunita Pandya Williams was born in Euclid, Ohio to Deepak and bonnie Pandya and moved to Needham, MA which is her hometown. She is married to Michael J. William.
Sunita was born on September 19, 1965 s. and has a B.S. (Physcal Science)- U.S. Naval Academy 1987; M.S. Engg- Florida inst tech, 1995
She served in the US Navy during Desert Shield and Provide Comfort as well as relief ops in Hurricane Andrew (Florida). She was awarded teh Navy Commendation Medal (2), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal and various other service awards.
She has logged over 2770 flight hours in more than 30 different aircraft. She also worked in Moscow with the Russian Space Agency on the Russian contribution to the International Space Station (ISS) and with the first Expedition Crew to the ISS
GREAT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY- LIKE KALPANA CHAWLA!
CONGRATULATE NASA SHUTTLE CREW STS 116 ON DISCOVERY SHUTTLE www.indian-american.org

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