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Deep Impact is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film [3] directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman.
She was crew support astronaut for the Expedition 6 crew during their six-month mission on the ISS. In July 2006, Nyberg took part in NEEMO 10, a deep-sea training and simulation exercise at the Aquarius underwater laboratory to help NASA prepare for the return of astronauts to the Moon and crewed missions to Mars. Nyberg and her crewmates ...
In the summer of 1998, Hollywood offered up not one, but two blockbuster films about asteroids hurtling towards Earth. Released on May 8 of that year, Deep Impact, directed by Mimi Leder, told a ...
First female commercial astronaut spaceship pilot [18] [19] First African-American commercial astronaut [20] First African-American woman to pilot a spacecraft [21] Inspiration4 (Sep. 16, 2021) 69 Hayley Arceneaux Dec. 9, 1991 United States: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital employee, bone cancer survivor, who is now a physician assistant
Emily Calandrelli grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia and graduated from Morgantown High School. [2] [5] As an undergraduate, she attended West Virginia University. [2]She became a Truman Scholar which led to her working for one summer in Washington, D.C. for her US Representative Alan Mollohan. [6]
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]
Rya Kihlstedt (born July 23, 1970) is an American actress. [2] She starred in the 1997 comedy film Home Alone 3 as Alice Ribbons. Kihlstedt would go on to appear in the films Deep Impact (1998), Women in Trouble (2009) and The Atticus Institute (2015).
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.