Official Nasa Communication 07-031 Sunita Williams Visit

August 23, 2007 Katherine K. Martin Media Relations Office 216-433-2406 [email protected] RELEASE: 07-031 SUNITA WILLIAMS TO VISIT NASA GLENN Cleveland -- News media are invited to attend a post-flight mission briefing for employees with NASA astronaut and Ohio native Sunita Williams at NASA's Glenn Research Center on Monday, August 27, at 1 p.m. As a member of the Expedition 14 crew aboard the International Space Station, Williams established a world record for females with four spacewalks totaling 29 hours and 17 minutes of extravehicular activity. She concluded her tour of duty as a member of the Expedition 15 crew, returning to Earth with the STS-117 space shuttle crew on June 22, 2007. Williams, who holds the record for longest spaceflight by a woman, was born in Euclid, Ohio. She spent 195 days in space, 190 of them as a flight engineer aboard the station. Williams will present a video of mission highlights and talk about her work on the space experiments designed and built at Glenn in Glenn's Administration Building Auditorium. Williams will be available for a brief question and answer session with the news media from 2:30 to 2:45 p.m. Media representatives interested in covering the event should contact Katherine Martin at 216-433-2406 by 10 a.m. Monday, August 27. For a biography on Sunita Williams, visit: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/williams-s.html

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