Trained to remain aboard the space station until July, Williams will also join space station commander Mike Lopez-Alegria for three spacewalks early in 2007.
People were being honoured without a recommendation, he stressed in his monthly radio programme.
Ayesha Aziz has always aimed for the sky.
Sri Srinivasan, the first Indian-origin federal judge in the United States, is India Abroad Person of the Year 2013
