MELBOURNE, FLA. — Go to http://www.it.fit.edu/events/2008_02_sunita_williams or the Gleason Auditorium from 2-3 p.m. today (Feb. 29) to see a lecture by NASA Astronaut and Florida Tech Alumna Sunita Williams. Williams ’95, M.S. engineering management, will talk about her experiences and answer questions from the audience in the Gleason Auditorium. Williams holds the record for the longest duration space flight by a woman — 195 days. She also holds the record for most hours outside a spacecraft by a female by completing four spacewalks with a total time of 29 hours, 17 minutes. For more information about Williams, go to http://today.fit.edu/archives/winter07/index.html or http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/williams-s.html and http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/s_williams_record.html.
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