Ellen S. Baker

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Ellen Baker
Ellen Baker
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on May 23, 1984
(12th NASA Group)
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		October 18, 1989
Landing of the
last space flight: 		July 7, 1995
Time in space: 28d 14h 31min
retired on December 2011
Space flights

Ellen S. Baker (* 27. April 1953 when Ellen Louise Shulman in Fayetteville , North Carolina ) is a former American astronaut of NASA . She is married and has two kids.

Baker graduated from Bayside High School in New York in 1970 and enrolled at the State University of New York to study geology , which she graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1974 . In 1978 she received her doctorate in medicine from Cornell University . She then did a specialist training and after three years received her license as an internist . From the University of Texas , they also acquired in 1994 a Master as a general practitioner . Ellen S. Baker is a radio amateur with callsign KB5SIX.

NASA activities

Baker joined NASA as a medic at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in 1981 after completing her training . In the same year she graduated from the Aerospace Medicine Course of the US Air Force at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio ( Texas ). Before being selected as an astronaut in May 1984, she was employed as a doctor at the JSC hospital. The astronaut training was completed after one year. Baker left NASA in December 2011.

STS-34

STS-34 was Baker's first space flight. As a mission specialist, she was part of the Atlantis crew, which took off on October 18, 1989 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on October 23. During the flight, among other things, the space probe Galileo was launched for Jupiter exploration.

STS-50

Baker also participated in STS-50 as a mission specialist aboard the Columbia space shuttle from June 25 to July 9, 1992. It was the first flight of the "United States Microgravity Laboratory" and the first shuttle flight that lasted two weeks.

STS-71

STS-71 was the first shuttle mission to dock at the Russian Mir station, for which the space shuttle Atlantis was equipped with a special coupling. During the stay the crew of the Mir was exchanged. The Atlantis took off on June 27, 1995 from the Kennedy Space Center with seven crew members and landed there again with eight space travelers on July 7.

Summary

No. mission function Flight date Flight duration
1 STS-34 Mission specialist October 18 - October 23, 1989 4d 23h 39m
2 STS-50 Mission specialist June 25 - July 9, 1992 13d 19h 30m
3 STS-71 Mission specialist June 27 - July 7, 1995 9d 19h 22m

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KB5SIX in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) database
  2. ↑ Veteran astronaut Ellen Baker Retires. In: RELEASE J12-002. NASA, January 20, 2012, accessed January 21, 2012 .

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personal data
SURNAME Baker, Ellen S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baker, Ellen Louise Shulman (full name); Shulman, Ellen Louise (maiden name); Baker, Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Fayetteville , North Carolina , United States