Kathryn P. Hire

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Kathryn Hire
Kathryn Hire
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on December 9, 1994
( 15th NASA Group )
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		April 17, 1998
Landing of the
last space flight: 		February 22, 2010
Time in space: 29d 15h 56min
Space flights

Kathryn Patricia "Kay" Hire (born August 26, 1959 in Mobile , Alabama ) is an American astronaut .

education

Hire received a bachelor's degree in engineering and management from the United States Naval Academy in 1981 and a master's degree in space engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1991 .

Hire was trained as a naval aviator in the United States Navy in 1982. She participated in global airborne oceanographic research missions and worked as an instructor at Mather Air Force Base in California. Hire is the first woman in the American military to be assigned to an aircrew for combat missions. In 1993 she flew on board a P-3 maritime patrol aircraft . In Operation Enduring Freedom and the Iraq War , she was used in the command staff of the US Navy.

Astronaut activity

From May 1989 Hire worked as an engineer at the Kennedy Space Center and later for Lockheed . In December 1994 she was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate. After her training as a mission specialist, she worked as a liaison officer ( CAPCOM ) in the control center. She worked in the management of the astronauts office for the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory , the shuttle payloads and the crew equipment.

STS-90

On April 17, 1998 Hire started as a mission specialist on the space shuttle Columbia for the Spacelab mission STS-90 . The 16-day Neurolab mission primarily served to research the effects of weightlessness on the brain and nervous system .

STS-130

On December 5, 2008, her participation in the STS-130 mission as a mission specialist was announced. The take-off took place on February 8, 2010, the landing on February 22.

See also

Web links

Commons : Kathryn P. Hire  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NASA Assigns Astronaut Crews for Future Space Shuttle Missions. NASA, December 5, 2008, accessed December 7, 2008 .
personal data
SURNAME Hire, Kathryn P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hire, Kathryn Patricia; Hire, Kay (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Mobile , Alabama