Sunitha Williams – to start her second time space exploration.

Indian- American astronaut, Sunitha Williams would travel to space for the second time in

June 2012. Born of Gujarathi parents,Deepak Pandya-neuroanatomist and slovac

mother Bonny Pandya in Euclid, Ohio, but considers Needham,Massachusets where her

parents live as her home town.

Sunitha Williams, 44, would take over as station commander at the International space

station that was her home in the sky from December 9, 2006 to June 22, 2007.

Williams would be joined by flight engineers Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and

Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide on Soyuz 31 flight to the space station in June2012.

After launching aboard Discovery, Williams arranged to donate her pony tail to Locks of Love.Fellow astronaut Joan Higginbotham cut her hair aboard the International Space Station and the Discovery crew brought the pony tail back to Earth.

Among the personal items Williams took with her on her last trip were a copy of the Bhagavadgita, a small figurine of Ganesha and some samosas. The question is what would she carry this time around.