Sunita Williams, Team to Ensure Safe Cargo Flights to ISS

Indian-born astronaut Sunita Williams and her colleagues have successfully tested a new generation of training simulators. (Photo: Reuters)

Indian-born NASA’s commercial crew astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams and her colleagues have successfully tested a new generation of training simulators that will prepare them for launch, flight and returns aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.

These simulators have touchscreen displays, which means they are more versatile than previous spacecraft trainers. We can run multiple simulations by just changing software and then put that same software into a bigger crew simulator, which we will use to train the whole crew for a spaceflight.

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Its primary mission is to transport crew to the International Space Station (ISS) and to private space stations such as the proposed Bigelow Aerospace Commercial Space Station.