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Gabrielle Dee Giffords (born June 8, 1970) is an American retired politician and gun control activist. She served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Arizona's 8th congressional district from January 2007 until January 2012, when she resigned because of a severe brain injury suffered during an assassination attempt.
In May of 2011, Giffords traveled to the Kennedy Space Center to support her husband astronaut Mark Kelly in the launching of the final flight of space shuttle Endeavour.
He flew his first space mission in 2001 as pilot of STS-108, then piloted STS-121 in 2006, and commanded STS-124 in 2008 and STS-134 (the final mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour) in 2011. In January 2011, Kelly's wife, then-Arizona Representative Gabby Giffords , was shot and nearly killed in an assassination attempt in Arizona.
STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6) [9] was the penultimate mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the 25th and last spaceflight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. [10] This flight delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station . [ 11 ]
After working to improve the booster design and creating new management practices to improve safety, NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center.
Giffords and Kelly met on a US-China trade mission in 2003, according to the Arizona Republic. They married in 2007 , when Kelly was still a NASA astronaut and Giffords was in her first term in ...
She also gained some beneficial publicity when it was revealed that she was engaged to space shuttle astronaut Mark Kelly. [13] Her only serious competition was longtime KVOA television newscaster Patty Weiss, who ran as a more liberal alternative to Giffords. [17]
Former U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords from Arizona's 8th district is a mass shooting survivor.