India’s daughter Sunita Williams created history, became the first female astronaut to fly a spacecraft

Indian-origin daughter Sunita Williams has achieved yet another milestone. Astronaut Sunita Williams has become the first woman to fly a spacecraft. 58-year-old Sunita Williams created history on June 5 by flying on Boeing’s Starliner capsule with NASA astronaut Barry Butch Wilmore from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

India’s daughter Sunita Williams creates history

Earlier, Sunita Williams had registered her name as the woman who spent the longest time in space. Born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Sunita stepped into space for the first time in the year 2006. In the year 2008, Sunita was also awarded the Padma Bhushan for her remarkable contribution in the field of science and engineering.

Sunita Williams became the first woman to fly a spaceship

Sunita has won many titles. Be it the record of staying in space for a long time or doing a space walk for 50 hours. With this, Sunita Williams has also made the record of becoming the first woman to fly a spaceship.

Let us tell you that Sunita Williams and Wilmore will continue their campaign by staying on the space station for about a week. Their mission on Starline is an important step in expanding humanity’s access to space through commercial partnerships.

What is this mission?

Actually this mission named Boeing Crew Flight Test CFT has been launched as NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. This is an important step towards certifying Starline in view of regular crew flights to the International Space Station.

If this mission is successful, it will make it the second private spacecraft to bring and take astronauts to the space station. Let us tell you that right now SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is the only vehicle that can bring back essential things to Earth. Let us tell you that this was the third test flight of the capsule. This was also the capsule’s first flight with astronauts.