Stephanie Wilson
| Stephanie Wilson | |
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | May 1, 1996 (16th NASA Group) |
| Calls: | 3 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
4th July 2006 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
April 20, 2010 |
| Time in space: | 42d 23h 46min |
| Space flights | |
Stephanie Diana Wilson (born September 27, 1966 in Boston , Massachusetts , USA ) is an American astronaut .
education
Parents Eugene and Barbara Wilson moved from Boston to the small town of Pittsfield, Massachusetts when their daughter was a little girl. There Wilson attended after the Stearns Elementary School, the Crosby Elementary School and finally the Taconic High School. In 1984 she began studying at the famous Harvard University in Cambridge . Shortly after the school celebrated its 350th anniversary, Wilson earned her bachelor's degree in engineering in 1988 . She also received a Masters in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas in 1992 .
After graduating from Harvard, Wilson worked for two years at Martin Marietta Astronautics Group in Denver ( Colorado ), which is since 1995 Lockheed Martin. She carried out stress calculations in order to analyze the loads occurring on a Titan IV rocket during launch. She then continued her studies in Texas from 1990. Immediately after leaving the University of Texas, she found a job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena ( California ). She was a member of the Galileo probe's attitude control team . In particular, she was responsible for aligning the scientific platform and the antenna. In addition, Wilson worked on an interferometry program at JPL.
Astronaut activity
Stephanie Wilson was selected for NASA's astronaut program in April 1996 . The two-year basic training began for her and her 34 classmates in August. Since autumn 1998 she has been a full-fledged mission specialist. A further training phase followed, in which she familiarized herself with the experimental procedures on the International Space Station (ISS) . She then worked for some time as CapCom before she was transferred to the Space Shuttle Operations department , where she dealt with the shuttle's drive units.
Wilson received her first assignment for a space flight in December 2002. Together with James Halsell as commander, Alan Poindexter as pilot, and Piers Sellers , Wendy Lawrence and Mike Foreman as mission specialists, she should form the crew of STS-120 . The supply flight to the ISS was scheduled for February 2004 and should further expand the station with the Harmony connection module . Because of the Columbia accident a year earlier, the flight planning of the shuttle program had to be changed.
STS-121
In November 2004, Stephanie Wilson was assigned to the crew of STS-121 . The mission was carried out in July 2006 after several postponements. The main tasks were to prove on the one hand that the improvements made to the space shuttle after STS-107 and STS-114 work, and on the other hand to supply the ISS with goods and to reinforce its two-man crew with an astronaut. Since the ISS expedition 6 , three space travelers have been working on the station again. In addition, the shuttle crew carried out three spacecraft works before the flight came to an end after two weeks. Together with her colleague Lisa Nowak , she was responsible for all work with the robot arms on this flight.
STS-120
Wilson was nominated again for the STS-120 mission in late January 2007. When the team was announced in June 2006, it was initially passed over. Half a year later Michael Foreman was assigned STS-123 and Wilson moved up. She was Mission Specialist on the STS-120 flight, which operated between October 23 and November 7, 2007.
STS-131
On December 5, 2008, Wilson was named Mission Specialist for the STS-131 mission . It took off on April 5, 2010 and landed on April 20, 2010.
Private
Wilson is married and has no children.
See also
Web links
- Stephanie Wilson on the NASA website - biography, pictures and videos (English; PDF)
- spacefacts.de: Short biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ NASA Assigns Astronaut Crews for Future Space Shuttle Missions. NASA, December 5, 2008, accessed December 7, 2008 .
- ^ STS-131 Mission Information. NASA, April 20, 2010, accessed April 20, 2010 .
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| SURNAME | Wilson, Stephanie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilson, Stephanie Diana (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts, USA |