Deepak pandya: Washington

Washington: An ecstatic and very relieved Deepak Pandya, father of Sunita Williams, has thanked India for all the support through Sunita’s space sojourn. Speaking to Times Now, Pandya began by enumerating some of the to-do’s on the astronaut’s itinerary after she returned home. Deepak Pandya (6 December 1932 – 4 October 2020 [1]) was an Indian-American neuroanatomist who is best known for his contributions to the understanding of cortical and subcortical brain connectivity in the macaque using tract-tracing methods. He was the father of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams. The NASA astronaut Sunita Williams’ father, Dr Deepak Pandya passed away near Boston in USA at an age of 88 on Sunday. He was survived by his wife and three children including Williams. Sunita Williams is an Indian-American astronaut who married Michael Williams, a retired federal marshal. They met in the US Navy as helicopter pilots and got married in the late 1990s.