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Anna Lee Fisher (née Tingle; born August 24, 1949) is an American chemist, emergency physician and a former NASA astronaut.Formerly married to fellow astronaut Bill Fisher, and the mother of two children, in 1984, she became the first mother to fly in space.
Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut, current commander of the International Space Station, 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, current record-holder for most hours spent during spacewalks by a woman).
Earthrise was taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed voyage to orbit the Moon. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] For years accounts persisted that mission commander Frank Borman took the picture or at least the first in black-and-white, with the Earth's terminator touching the horizon, before Anders found a suitable 70 mm ...
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Sullivan in her Navy uniform for the STS-31 crew photo Sullivan became an adjunct professor of geology at Rice University in Houston in 1985. [ 39 ] In this role she joined an oceanographic research cruise in 1988, where she met Andreas Rechnitzer , a US Navy oceanographer, and she started thinking about joining the US Naval Reserve (USNR) as ...
Judith Love Cohen (August 16, 1933 – July 25, 2016) [1] was an American aerospace engineer.She was an electrical engineer on the Minuteman missile, the science ground station for the Hubble Space Telescope, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, and the Apollo Space Program. [2]
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]
Susan Kare (/ k ɛər / "care"; born February 5, 1954) is an American artist and graphic designer, who contributed interface elements and typefaces for the first Apple Macintosh personal computer from 1983 to 1986. [1]