Flight record
3 flights on padside's record, flying from 1984 to 1992, with 1 spacewalk in that span.
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan is an American geologist and a former NASA astronaut. A crew member on three Space Shuttle missions, she was the first American woman to walk in space on October 11, 1984. She was Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 6, 2014. Sullivan's tenure ended on January 20, 2017 with the swearing in of President Donald Trump. Following completion of her service at NOAA, she was designated as the 2017 Charles A. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, and has also served as a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Paterson
- Education
- University of California, Santa Cruz; Dalhousie University; William Howard Taft Charter High School
- Awards
- National Aviation Hall of Fame; Leif Erikson Award; BBC 100 Women; Nevada Medal; Rachel Carson Award; and 6 more
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-45March 24, 1992
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-31 (Hubble)April 24, 1990
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-41-GOctober 5, 1984
Spacewalks
- STS-41-G EVA1984-10-11
Born 1951-10-03 · age 75