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Margaret Mary "Peggy" Ray (1952 – October 5, 1998) was an American woman who had schizophrenia and erotomania. She received much media attention for stalking talk show host David Letterman and retired astronaut Story Musgrave.
Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo; born May 10, 1963) is an American aeronautical engineer, former NASA astronaut, and retired United States Navy officer. Nowak served as naval flight officer and test pilot in the Navy, and was selected by NASA for NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996, qualifying as a mission specialist in robotics.
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.
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.
The previous record of 60 hours and 21 minutes was set in 2017 by now-former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson. Whitson's 10 career spacewalks are still the most any woman has ever made, according to NASA.
Nicole Victoria Aunapu Mann was born on June 27, 1977, to Howard and Victoria Aunapu and grew up in Penngrove, California. [3]Her name Aunapu (a Germanised version of "õunapuu", meaning "apple tree") is Estonian, as her grandfather Helmuth Aunapu was from Tallinn in Estonia, but his family originated from the Estonian island of Hiiumaa.
Peggy Annette Whitson (born February 9, 1960) is an American biochemistry researcher, and astronaut working for Axiom Space. She retired from NASA in 2018, after serving as Chief Astronaut. [3] Over all her missions, Whitson accumulated a total of 675 days in space, more than any other American or woman. [4] [5]
Christina Koch (/ k ʊ k / COOK; née Hammock; born January 29, 1979) is an American engineer and NASA astronaut of the class of 2013. [1] [2] She received Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and physics and a Master of Science in electrical engineering at North Carolina State University. [3]