July 10, 2010 12:13 PM

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Space once more for Sunita Williams

<br/>Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams will travel to space for the second time in June 2012. The 44 year old astronaut holds the longest space flight of 195 days for space women.<br/><br/>Williams will be joined by flight engineers Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide on Soyuz 31 flight to the space station.<br/><br/>The announcement in this regard was made by – NASA and its international partners, the Russia Federal Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, which have assigned four new International Space Station crews.<br/><br/>NASA said William will become the commander of the International Space Station in October 2012.

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