Don’ t

get bogged down by the notion of limits.

There aren’ t any.

Sunita Williams, MS Florida Institute of Technology, BS United States Naval Academy, American astronaut and United States Navy officer of Indian-Slovenian descent. She formerly held the records for total spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman. (50 hours, 40 minutes)

(Top) This mosaic of M31 merges 330 individual images taken by the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope aboard NASA’s Swift spacecraft. It is the highest-resolution image of the galaxy ever recorded in the ultraviolet. Image Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler (GSFC) and Erin Grand (UMCP). (Bottom) NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 32 flight engineer, appears to touch the bright sun on her mission’s third spacewalk on 5 September 2012. Image Credit: NASA.

This poster is part one of a three-poster series, featuring women who through optics and photonics, have made their careers in space. See spie.org/posters in 2018 and 2019 for new posters.www.spie.org/wio