NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams: Changing Your Perspective | Johnson Space Center In this episode of "Down to Earth", veteran astronaut Sunita 'Suni' Williams sits down with environmental studies student, Adrien Prouty, to discuss her previous missions, and what it was like to view our home planet from 250-miles up. Sunita L. Williams (Suni) was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998 and is a veteran of two International Space Station (ISS) missions: Expeditions 14/15 and 32/33. Williams has sp

"She personified NASA’s spirit of persevering against all odds, providing inspiration and advancing science and exploration.” Today, our headquarters building in Washington, DC, was formally named in honor of NASA's first African American female engineer, Mary W. Jackson: https://go.nasa.gov/3uyuX1M | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration