Kathryn P. Hire
Kathryn Hire | |
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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
- Short biography of Kathryn P. Hire at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Kathryn P. Hire (English; PDF)
- Biography of Kathryn P. Hire in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NASA Assigns Astronaut Crews for Future Space Shuttle Missions. NASA, December 5, 2008, accessed December 7, 2008 .
personal data | |
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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 |