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American astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore have been stuck in space for 107 days and the earliest they can return to Earth is in February. People in Williams' ancestral village in India ...
Williams's paternal family is from Jhulasan in the Mehsana district [9] whereas her maternal family is of Slovene descent. [10] Williams has taken the Slovenian flag, [11] a samosa and Carniolan sausage to space in celebration of her Indian and Slovenian heritage. [12] Her nicknames are Suni in the United States [8] and Sončka in Slovenia. [13]
Sunita Williams, an Indian American NASA astronaut aboard the Boeing Starliner on Wednesday morning, has been known to bring items representing her culture with her to space.
A. R. Rahman – Indian composer, musician, singer-songwriter, producer and philanthropist; he converted to Islam along with other members of his family in 1989 at age 23, changing his name from A. S. Dileep Kumar Mudhaliar to Allah Rakha Rahman [176] [177] A. R. Rahman; Yuvan Shankar Raja – Indian musician; music director from Tamil Nadu [178]
As of 2024, Four people of Indian origin have been in space. The first astronaut of the Indian nationality, in space was Rakesh Sharma on Soyuz T-11 in 1984. [1][2] Three astronauts – Kalpana Chawla, [3][4] Sunita Williams [5] and Raja Chari [6][7] – flew as NASA astronauts. Sirisha Bandla is the first and only Indian-born woman to make a ...
Starliner commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore and co-pilot Sunita Williams, both former Navy test pilots and veterans of earlier stays aboard the International Space Station, spoke with reporters from ...
Sunita Williams. Sunita Williams, an American astronaut who holds the record for longest single space flight by a woman carried a copy of Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads with her to space, said "Those are spiritual things to reflect upon yourself,life, world around you and see things other way, I thought it was quite appropriate" while talking ...
Background. Jhulasan is one of the most developed villages in Kadi Taluka, district Mehsana of Gujarat state, in India. The majority of the population in this village are Patels. Thakor, Prajapati, Raval, Rabari, Gajjars, Suthars, Barots, and Ravals are minorities. About 350 families, mostly patels, have migrated to USA and Canada.