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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.
José Moreno Hernández (born August 7, 1962) is a Mexican-American engineer [3] and astronaut.He currently serves as a Regent of the University of California.. Hernández was on the Space Shuttle mission STS-128 in August 2009.
John Bennett Herrington (Chickasaw Nation, [3] born September 14, 1958) is a retired United States Naval Aviator, engineer and former NASA astronaut. In 2002, Herrington became the first enrolled citizen of a Native American tribe to fly in space.
This list of interesting facts is the perfect way to learn something new about life. ... During Apollo 14’s mission in 1971, astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. brought a six iron club, attached it to a ...
Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut, retired U.S. Navy officer, and former record holder for most spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes).
These interesting fun facts span categories like history, science, art, food, space and more. ... Apollo 11 astronauts spent weeks in quarantine at Nasa HQ following their landmark trip to and ...
Bernard Anthony Harris Jr. (born June 26, 1956) is a former NASA astronaut. On February 9, 1995, Harris became the first African American to perform an extra-vehicular activity (spacewalk), during the second of his two Space Shuttle flights.
Tracy Caldwell Dyson (born Tracy Ellen Caldwell; August 14, 1969) is an American chemist and NASA astronaut.She was a mission specialist on Space Shuttle Endeavour flight STS-118 in August 2007 and has participated in two long-duration missions to the International Space Station, Expedition 23 and 24 from April to September 2010 and Expedition 70 and 71 from March to September 2024.