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Sunita Williams is the second American woman astronaut of Indian origin to travel into space after Kalpana Chawla. An official release of the Government of India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting also identifies her as the second woman astronaut of Indian origin after Kalpana Chawla. Sunita Williams was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1998, and her first space mission began in December 2006, when she travelled to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.