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Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut, retired U.S. Navy officer, and one of the most experienced spacewalkers with nine spacewalks (second most for a woman) and a total time of 62 hours and 6 minutes (fourth overall, most by a woman).
She is the first American woman to walk in space and served aboard the mission that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope. That role in helping humanity look outward has not prevented her from looking homeward. The planet is suffering increasingly severe upheavals, at least partly a result of climate change—droughts, floods, typhoons, tornadoes ...
Stephanie Diana Wilson (born September 27, 1966) [1] is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut.She flew to space onboard three Space Shuttle missions, and is the second African American woman to go into space, after Mae Jemison.
First Russian woman to travel in two different spacecraft, Soyuz TM-20 and STS-84; both were on trips to Mir Space Station. First Russian woman to travel on the Space Shuttle. Soyuz TM-20 (Oct. 3, 1994) STS-84 (May 15, 1997) 27 Eileen Collins Nov. 19, 1956 United States: First female shuttle pilot and shuttle commander. STS-63 (Feb. 3, 1995)
Recently released photos of two NASA astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have caused health concerns to rise. Although Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore were ...
Salim is the only Pakistani among the first 100 aspiring space tourists to purchase a ticket for Virgin Galactic's future commercial space liner. [7] She became the first Pakistani astronaut, the first astronaut from Monaco, and the first female astronaut from the UAE to travel to space, traveling aboard Virgin Galactic on 6 October 2023. [8 ...
He was able to fund the unofficial program, the Woman in Space program, [1] and invited 25 women to come and take the physical tests. Lovelace was interested in the way that women's bodies would react to being in space. Cobb was the first American woman (and the only one of the Mercury 13) to undergo and pass all three phases of testing.
Samantha Cristoforetti OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [saˈmanta kristofoˈretti]; born 26 April 1977) is an Italian European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She is the second of two women sent into space by ESA and the first from Italy.