Career record
Flights
2
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
180d
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Karen LuJean Nyberg is an American mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut. Nyberg became the 50th woman in space on her first mission in 2008. Nyberg started her space career in 1991 and spent a total of 180 days in space in 2008 and 2013 (as a Mission Specialist on STS-124 and a Flight Engineer on Soyuz TMA-09M).
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-09M — Flight Engineer · Success · May 28, 2013
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-124 — Mission Specialist · Success · May 31, 2008
Born 1969-10-07