India, Jan. 21 -- Sunita Williams, during her recent visit to India, remembered her Indian father, Deepak Pandya. While speaking at an interactive session at New Delhi's American Center, the former NASA astronaut spoke about her father and shared how she looked for her "immediate home" while in space.

Sunita Williams' father, Deepak Pandya, was from Jhulasan, Gujarat. He passed away in 2020 in the US at the age of 88.

He was a neuroanatomist who started his higher educational journey with Intermediate Science (I.S.) in 1953 at Gujarat University. In 1957, he earned his MD.

In 1964, he joined the Department of Anatomy at Case Western Reserve University as a postdoctoral fellow. He met his wife and Sunita Williams' mother, Slovenian-Amer...