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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).
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 ...
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Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on October 17, 1956, [1] [2] the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison (née Green). [3] Her father was a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and her mother worked most of her career as an elementary school teacher of English and math at the Ludwig van Beethoven Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois.
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.
Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is an American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. [1] In 1993, Ochoa became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. [2]
Jennifer Lopez Posts Rare Photo with Mom Guadalupe Rodríguez & They Look *So* Alike. Nakeisha Campbell. December 29, 2024 at 2:00 PM.