Apr 162024
Sunita Williams
Astronaut Sunita Williams ran the Boston Marathon in 2007 while she was serving on the International Space Station. She ran the marathon on a treadmill in four hours 24 minutes. Her fellow crew members cheered for her while her sister Dina Pandya and fellow astronaut Karen L. Nyborg ran the marathon on earth.
Williams participated in Expeditions 15 and 16 and in Expeditions 32 and 33 on the International Space Station. By 2012 she had taken seven spacewalks for a total of 50 hours 40 minutes.