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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Sunita Williams. | Nov 07, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN - NASA astronaut Suni Williams retires months after return from troubled mission to orbit. | Jul 24, 2026 | ||
| Updated the news on her retirement. | Jan 21, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC News - Astronaut Suni Williams: You need to make peace before leaving Earth. | Jan 02, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Not My Job: Astronaut Sunita Williams Gets Quizzed on Storage Space. | Nov 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CBS News - NASA astronaut Sunita Williams says "we don't feel abandoned" or "stuck" as space mission stretches on. | Sep 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NASA - Sunita L. Williams (PDF). | May 09, 2025 | ||
| Article updated to include information of Williams' return to Earth. | Mar 19, 2025 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Mar 19, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 18, 2025 | ||
| Changed “would return empty” to “returned empty in September 2024.” | Sep 10, 2024 | ||
| Added information about the return of Williams in February 2025. | Aug 26, 2024 | ||
| Added material about first crewed Starliner flight. | Aug 12, 2024 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jun 05, 2024 | ||
| Changed “May 2024” to “June 2024.” | May 30, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 30, 2024 | ||
| Changed “2023” to “May 2024.” | Mar 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Sunita Williams Soars Weightlessly. | Dec 04, 2023 | ||
| Added cross-reference. | Mar 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Space.com - Sunita Williams: Astronaut, Marathon Runner in Space. | Sep 07, 2022 | ||
| Changed “She was chosen in 2018 for the first operational crewed Starliner flight to the ISS” to “She was chosen in 2022 for the first crewed test Starliner flight to the ISS.” | Jun 16, 2022 | ||
| Changed “the first crewed Starliner flight” to “the first operational crewed Starliner flight.” Changed “2020” to “2023.” | Mar 22, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 18, 2019 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Mar 18, 2019 | ||
| Noted that crewed test flights of NASA's Commercial Crew program were moved back to 2019. | Sep 05, 2018 | ||
| Changed "who holds the record for most time spent on space walks by a woman" to "set records on her two flights to the International Space Station (ISS)." Changed date of Commercial Crew flights from 2017 to 2018. | Sep 11, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 10, 2016 | ||
| Material about spaceflight record being broken and her selection for Commercial Crew test flights added. | Jul 17, 2015 | ||
| Added material about Williams participating in the Boston Marathon and a triathlon in space, her Indian heritage, and her flight on Soyuz TMA-05M. | Feb 17, 2015 | ||
| Photograph of Williams running the Boston Marathon onboard the ISS added. | Feb 17, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: MapsofIndia.com - Sunita Williams. | Nov 05, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: NASA - Sunita L. Williams. | Aug 24, 2011 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 26, 2010 | ||
| New article added. | Feb 10, 2009 |
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