NASA Selects Suni Williams for Commercial Crew |
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Sunita "Suni" Williams is one of four astronauts selected by NASA for Commercial Crew. Bob Behnken, Eric Boe, Doug Hurley and Williams have been selected to be the first astronauts to train for test flights to the International Space Station on Boeing’s CST-100 and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Williams, a U.S. Navy captain, was born in Euclid, Ohio, and considers Needham, Massachusetts, her hometown. She flew two long-duration missions on the International Space Station and has flown in space shuttles and Russian Soyuz spacecraft during her career. She set a record for American female astronauts when she completed more than 50 hours of spacewalks. Her missions were Expedition 14/15, which she flew aboard STS-116 and STS-117, and Expedition 32/33, which she flew to and returned to Earth aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
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