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Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman (born December 14, 1960) is an American chemist, engineer, former United States Air Force colonel, and retired NASA astronaut. [1] She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew member of Expedition 27 after logging 159 days in space.
Katherine Johnson Johnson in 1983 Born Creola Katherine Coleman (1918-08-26) August 26, 1918 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, U.S. Died February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24) (aged 101) Newport News, Virginia, U.S. Other names Katherine Goble Education West Virginia State University (BS) Occupation Mathematician Employers NACA NASA (1953–1986) Known for Calculating trajectories for NASA ...
Astronaut Commander Kenneth D. Bowersox Third spaceflight Pilot Kent V. Rominger First spaceflight Mission Specialist 1 Catherine G. Coleman First spaceflight Mission Specialist 2 Flight Engineer Michael López-Alegría First spaceflight Mission Specialist 3 Kathryn C. Thornton Fourth and last spaceflight Payload Specialist 1 Fred W. Leslie
Neil Armstrong had a pilot's license before a driver's license. As commander of Apollo 11, he was the first person to step on the moon in July 1969.
Astronaut Commander Eileen M. Collins Third spaceflight Pilot Jeffrey S. Ashby First spaceflight Mission Specialist 1 Catherine G. Coleman Second spaceflight Mission Specialist 2 Flight Engineer Steven A. Hawley Fifth and last spaceflight Mission Specialist 3 Michel Tognini, CNES Second and last spaceflight
The former astronaut previously married Lois Driggs Cannon, Beverly Van Zile and Joan Archer. In 1969, Aldrin, along with astronaut Neil Armstrong, became one of the first people to land on the moon.
Image credits: historycoolkids #2. Queen Elizabeth has died at age 96. She spent 7 decades on the throne, which was longer than the reigns of her father, uncle, grandfather, and great-grandfather ...
After 2 days of autonomous flight, the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on April 6 at 23:09 UTC, with the crew officially joining the crew of Expedition 27, alongside Russian commander Dmitri Kondratyev, NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli. [6]