Last Updated on November 12, 2026 1:37 pm by INDIAN AWAAZ
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Indian American astronaut and retired Navy Captain Sunita Williams was honoured as Grand Marshal of New York’s 107th annual Veterans Day Parade, leading about 20,000 participants along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue yesterday. She called the honour incredible, saying her Navy service shaped her and prepared her for future challenges. Williams completed three space missions, spending 608 days in space and setting a record for women with nine spacewalks totalling 62 hours. She made headlines in 2024 when an eight-day mission to the International Space Station aboard Boeing’s Starliner extended to nine months because of technical problems. She and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore eventually returned to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew-9 mission.