Sunita Williams chosen for NASA's 1st US commercial spaceflight
Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams is among nine astronauts named by NASA for its first spaceflight programme using US-made commercial spacecraft developed by SpaceX and Boeing. It will be the first human spaceflight from US soil since the retirement of its space shuttle in 2011. The astronauts will be sent to International Space Station in voyages scheduled to begin next year.