Bill Gerstenmaier
Dec 1 2006, Pooja

Sunita Williams, the second woman after Kalpana Chawla is all ready to board for her space mission by seventh of December with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Flight engineer Williams will join six other crews as Discovery lifts...

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