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On Tuesday, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation in India’s Uttar Pradesh, passed a unanimous resolution to rename the road in front of the ISRO office in Janakipuram in honor of Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams.
The decision was announced by City Mayor Sushma Kharkwal, who explained that the proposal for the renaming was introduced by Corporator Ranjit Singh.
“A corporator, Ranjit Singh, gave a proposal on this, and it was passed unanimously. A road in front of the ISRO office in Janakipuram will be renamed after Sunita Williams,” Kharkwal said.
Williams, an American astronaut of Indian descent with NASA, is renowned for her multiple space missions, including her most recent, which saw her spending nine months aboard the International Space Station.
On March 18, NASA, in partnership with SpaceX, safely brought back the Crew-9 astronauts — Williams, Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov — from space.
While Hague and Gorbunov had been in space since September 2024, Wilmore and Williams had been on their mission since June.
Initially expected to last just a week, their mission was extended to over nine months due to delays caused by issues with their Boeing Starliner capsule.
Following their return, Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended a warm welcome to Williams.
