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Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams finally returned to Earth after her prolonged nine-month stay at the International Space Station. Her roots can be traced to the village of Jhulasan in Gujarat’s Mehsana, which is now celebrating her safe comeback with special prayers, yagnas and firecrackers. Williams’ father, Deepak Pandya, is of Indian origin, explaining her love for Indian food. She also carried a Ganesh idol with her during her mission Sunita Williams is an Indian-American astronaut who married Michael Williams, a retired federal marshal. They met in the US Navy as helicopter pilots and got married in the late 1990s. Washington: An ecstatic and very relieved Deepak Pandya, father of Sunita Williams, has thanked India for all the support through Sunita’s space sojourn. Speaking to Times Now, Pandya began by enumerating some of the to-do’s on the astronaut’s itinerary after she returned home. Dr DEEPAK PANDYA, NEUROANATOMIST, 1932–2020 Ms Sunita Lyn Williams, a retired U.S. Navy Captain, is well-known as an American astronaut. Her two spaceflights to the International Space Station combined lasted more than 321 days, ranking her second (after American astronaut Peggy Whitson) for most time spent in space by a woman. There is a possibility of her being included in a third spaceflight on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station in the near future ...