𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴! 👩🏼🚀 👊🏼
Poor, Sunita Williams, 59 years old, was "stranded" in space for 9 months...
(Along her fellow astronaut, Butch Wilmore.) -- 𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙝, 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩!
Suni Williams, is a force of nature!
Suni Williams flew combat missions as a Navy pilot. Over 3,000 flight hours in 30 different aircraft. She ranks among the most experienced.
She walked in space nine times, spending 62+ hours in spacewalks (current record-holder for most hours by a woman and 4th overall).
She ran a full, four-hour marathon 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗿𝗯𝗶𝘁 in 2007, the first person ever to do it. (Yes, while the ISS circled Earth at some 17,500 miles (28,163 km) per hour.)
She completed a triathlon in space too, in 2012: biking, running without gravity, and swimming (strapped herself to the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED), which uses weights to imitate water resistance while swimming through anti-gravity.)
In 2024, she flew Starliner’s test flight, the first woman to pilot a new spacecraft.
Nine months in space, she returned safely to Earth yesterday, March 18, 2025.
Sunita is a force of nature, an inspiring story and individual, and a role model of a human being.
Welcome home, Suni! You inspire us all to aim higher.
(BTW, they were never stranded on the space station. And their 280-day stay is now the sixth-longest mission in NASA history - so no, not the longest by far.)
An emphasis on this International Women's History month, Suni has her name marked in the books of #InspiringWomen!
[Additionally, edit:
Suny and Butch are also the only two astronauts to have flown aboard four different spacecraft:
✨ NASA's Space Shuttle
✨ Roscosmos' Soyuz
✨ Boeing Starliner
✨ SpaceX Dragon
A rare club of two! Here’s their incredible flight history:
🚀 Suni Williams' missions:
Space Shuttle – STS-116 (2006)
Soyuz – TMA-05M (2012)
Boeing Starliner – Crew Flight Test (2024)
SpaceX Dragon – Crew-9 (2024)
🚀 Butch Wilmore's missions:
Space Shuttle – STS-129 (2009)
Soyuz – TMA-14M (2014)
Boeing Starliner – Crew Flight Test (2024)
SpaceX Dragon – Crew-9 (2024)]
(Incredible info in the 'aditionally, edit', thanks to Bettina Inclán for that.)
#IWD25 #WomenHistoryMonth #WomeninAviation
