COVER STORY ASIA'S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN
SUNITA
WILLIAMS
Citizenship/Residence
Euclid, Ohio,
United States
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams
is only the second woman to
command the International Space
Station. An American astronaut
and United States Navy officer
of Indian-Slovenian descent,
she holds the records for total
spacewalks by a woman (seven)
and most spacewalk time for a
woman. She has been honored
Padma Bhushan (India, 2008,
for Science and Engineering).
Williams has spent a total of 322
days in space on two missions;
she ranks sixth on the all-time
U.S. endurance list, and second
all-time for a female. With 50
hours 40 minutes, she also holds
the record total cumulative
spacewalk time by a female
Up Till October 15, 2015
82
astronaut.