Shannon Walker

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Shannon Baker Walker
Shannon Baker Walker
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on May 6, 2004
( 19th NASA Group )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: June 15, 2010
Landing: November 26, 2010
Time in space: 163d 7h 11min
Space flights

Shannon Baker Walker (born June 4, 1965 in Houston , Texas , USA ) is an astronaut with the US space agency NASA .

Career

Walker graduated from Westbury Senior High School in Houston, Texas in 1983. She received a bachelor's degree in physics from Rice University in Houston in 1987 . In 1992 she obtained a master's degree there and finished her studies with a doctorate in space physics the next year .

From 1987 Walker worked as a flight controller for robotics for the US space shuttle for the Rockwell Space Operations Company at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston. In the Mission Control Center she worked as a flight controller for several space shuttle missions. In 1990, Walker took Rockwell's three-year leave of absence to continue her studies.

In 1995, Walker joined NASA and worked at JSC for the ISS program. There she was responsible for the integration of the robot technology as well as the coordination with the international partners of the ISS. In 1998 she became the leader of a group in the ISS Mission Evaluation Room to solve problems immediately. Her tasks there included supporting the flight controllers and solving hardware and software problems on the ISS.

As part of the ISS program, she worked in Moscow in 1999 with the Russian space agency Roskosmos and its suppliers. A year later she came back to Houston and took over the technical management of the ISS Mission Evaluation Room.

Astronaut activity

Walker was selected as an astronaut aspirant in May 2004. The basic training was completed in 2006. She then prepared for a stay on board the ISS. She was on the backup team for the Soyuz TMA-16 space flight . She was a flight engineer on ISS expeditions 24 and 25 , which lasted from June to November 2010. The launch with the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft took place on June 15, 2010, and the landing on November 26, 2010.

From 20. to 26. In October 2011 she was in command of NASA's NEEMO-15 submarine mission together with the aquanauts Takuya Ōnishi (JAXA), David Saint-Jacques (CSA) and Steve Squyres (Cornell University, University of North Carolina, Wilmington) .

Walker was also the second flight engineer on the backup crew for the Soyuz MS-06 flight , meaning that she would have flown to the ISS in September 2017 as a participant in Expeditions 53 and 54 if Joseph Acaba had been canceled.

On March 19, 2020 she was nominated as the fourth crew member to fly a Dragon-2 capsule on the USCV-1 mission .

Private

Walker has been married to astronaut Andy Thomas since April 15, 2005 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katherine Trinidad, Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters: NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering. NASA, November 21, 2008, accessed June 6, 2009 .
  2. ↑ NASA Announces Upcoming International Space Station Crew Assignments . March 28, 2017.

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SURNAME Walker, Shannon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walker, Shannon Baker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas