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Jonathan Yong Kim (born 5 February 1984) is an American U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, former SEAL, flight surgeon, Naval aviator, physician, and NASA astronaut.. Born in Los Angeles, Kim enlisted in the U.S. Navy in the early 2000s before earning a Silver Star, Bronze Star with V device, and his commission.
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.
Kathleen Hallisey "Kate" Rubins (born October 14, 1978) is an American microbiologist and NASA astronaut. [2] She became the 60th woman to fly in space when she launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 7, 2016. [3]
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'Ruin a dead man's reputation': Manalapan mom fears blame shift for Navy SEALs death That narrative was presented by Capt. Bradley Geary, the commanding officer in charge of Mullen’s SEAL training.
Margaret Rhea Seddon (born November 8, 1947) is an American surgeon and retired NASA astronaut.After being selected as part of the first group of astronauts to include women in 1978, she flew on three Space Shuttle flights: as a mission specialist on STS-51-D and STS-40, and as a payload commander for STS-58, accumulating over 722 hours in space.
A graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz, in the United States, and Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada—where she earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in geology in 1978—Sullivan was selected as one of the six women among the 35 astronaut candidate in NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first group to
The seal, whom Buzo nicknamed Trudie in honor of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the channel back in 1926, was following the swimmer closely for several minutes before she ...