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International Space Station Program
Oral History Project
Edited Oral History Transcript
Sunita L. Williams
Interviewed by Jennifer Ross-Nazzal
Houston, TX – 8 September 2015
Ross-Nazzal: Today is September 8, 2015. This interview is being conducted with Sunita Williams in Houston, Texas, at the NASA Johnson Space Center for the International Space Station Program Oral History Project. The interviewer is Jennifer Ross-Nazzal. Thanks again for taking some time today to meet with me, appreciate it.
Williams: My pleasure.
Ross-Nazzal: Captain Williams, you became a member of the Astronaut Corps in 1998, and since that time you’ve served in a number of capacities for the Space Station Program. Following your training and evaluation, you worked in Moscow with the Russian Space Agency on their contribution to the Space Station and on the first Expedition. In 2006 you flew on STS-116, NASA’s twentieth Shuttle Station assembly mission, and remained onboard the Station, serving as flight engineer for Expedition 14-15 crews. Six years later, in 2012, you served as the flight engineer for Expedition 32 and commanded Expedition 33. That’s quite a list.
Williams: It’s fun. I’m lucky.
Ross-Nazzal: You’ve been involved in so man
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Stranded astronauts say they are 'grateful' for extra time in space
Astronauts trying to make the most of their time stuck in spacepublished at 20:32 British Summer Time 13 September 202420:32 BST 13 September 2024
Caitlin Wilson
Lived editor
Nasa astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore could well have spent the better part of a year up in space by the time they are able to return to Earth - a trip which is forecasted for February 2025.
But the two have said that, despite missing their families - Wilmore said Friday he will now be physically absent for most of his daughter's final year of high school - they are actually grateful for the extra time on the International Space Station.
Williams has said that although she was disappointed to have to watch the Boeing Starliner craft they that travelled up on in June return to Earth without them earlier this month, she is glad for the chance to get to know a new spacecraft, the SpaceX Dragon that will bring them home next year.
And for Wilmore, he said he is happy to have a relief from joint pain while up in space - bones don't have any pressure pressing on them in zero-gravity.
The two also said they don't feel any ill will toward Nasa or Boeing as part of this ordeal - we're up here