Sunita Williams

Sunita Williams is a NASA astronaut and engineer who holds the record for the most spacewalks by a female astronaut. She was born in 1965 in Texas, USA. Williams earned a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas and later earned a master's degree in astronautical engineering from the University of Tennessee. She was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1998 and flew on two space shuttle missions. Williams became the first woman to perform two spacewalks in a single mission in 2007.