Williams etched her name in space history with the STS-116 mission aboard Discovery on December 9, 2006. As a flight engineer for Expeditions 14 and 15, she set records for women in space. These included more than 29 hours of spacewalks and over 195 days in orbit.

Sunita Williams is classified under the GS-15 pay grade, which is the highest level for federal employees under the General Schedule (GS) system

After nine months of uncertainty, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore finally saw hope as SpaceX’s Crew Dragon successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The long-awaited moment brought relief,