Kathleen sullivan astronaut
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On October 11, 1984, a female American astronaut stepped outside her spacecraft for the first time. Kathryn D. “Kathy” Sullivan had work to do in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Challenger, a mobile workplace travelling 17,500 miles per hour about 140 miles above the Earth. Sullivan was one of the six women (in a class of 35) selected in 1978 to be Space Shuttle astronauts, and she was the third woman tapped to fly.
An Earth scientist and PhD. geologist/oceanographer, mission specialist Sullivan was a good match for the STS-41G mission, which carried an Earth-observation payload and deployed the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite. She was co-investigator for the Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR-B) remote sensing experiment and actively involved in research use of the Large Format Camera and other instruments mounted in the payload bay. However, it was not these experiments that drew her outside for 3 ½ hours. She and crewmate David Leestma did a trial fluid transfer to demon
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Kathryn D. Sullivan
American astronaut (born 1951)
"Kathryn Sullivan" redirects here. For other uses, see Kathryn Sullivan (disambiguation).
Kathryn Sullivan | |
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| Born | Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan (1951-10-03) October 3, 1951 (age 73) Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. |
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| Space career | |
| Rank | Captain, USN |
Time in space | 22d 4h 49m |
| Selection | NASA Group 8 (1978) |
Total EVAs | 1 |
Total EVA time | 3h 29m |
| Missions | STS-41-G STS-31 STS-45 |
Mission insignia | |
| In office March 1, 2013 – January 20, 2017 Acting: March 1, 2013 – March 6, 2014 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Jane Lubchenco |
| Succeeded by | Benjamin Friedman (acting) |
| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | |
| Thesis | The Structure and Evolution of the Newfoundland Basin, Offshore Eastern Canada (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael John Keen |
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KATHY SULLIVAN
SCIENTIST, ASTRONAUT, EXPLORER
Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space and a veteran of three shuttle missions, tells her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope in her new book “Handprints on Hubble.”
Kathy Sullivan receives the Nevada Medal from the Desert Research Institute Foundation
The Desert Research Institute Foundation is honoring Dr. Kathy Sullivan with the 31st Nevada Medal for "her remarkable accomplishments in her pursuit to explore and share her scientific discoveries with the world."
Sullivan is the first American woman to walk in space for NASA, she led the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as Administrator and in 2020 made an historic dive to our ocean’s deepest point.
Established in 1988 to acknowledge outstanding achievement in the fields of science and engineering, the Nevada Medal is the highest scientific honor in the state of