Sunita Williams visiting India in September

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Indian American who recently completed her successful stay in space

August 27, 2007

Chandu Patel, president-elect of National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA) will be hosting Sunita Williams at a gala banquet in Ahmedabad during her visit to India from September 19-21, 2007.

Sunita Williams is the second woman of Indian heritage to have been selected by NASA for a space mission after Kalpana Chawla. She took a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a small figurine of Lord Ganesha and some samosas during her space flight. Her father, Dr. Deepak Pandya migrated from Gujarat and is a famous neuroanatomist. Sunita has been to India to visit her father's family.

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