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Stephanie Diana Wilson (born September 27, 1966) [ 1 ] is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She flew to space onboard three Space Shuttle missions, and is the second African American woman to go into space, after Mae Jemison. As of 2022, her 42 days in space are the second most of any female African American astronaut, having been ...
This includes national space programs, industry and commercial space programs which train and/or hire their own professional astronauts. The flags indicate the astronaut's primary citizenship during his or her time as an astronaut. The symbol identifies female astronauts. The symbol indicates astronauts who have left low Earth orbit.
A record four women simultaneously in space aboard the International Space Station in 2010 (Expedition 23 and STS-131). [1] Clockwise from lower left: Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Naoko Yamazaki, and Stephanie Wilson. Women have flown and worked in outer space since almost the beginning of human spaceflight.
That mission's name, Inspiration4, derives from Shift4, the payment-processing company that Isaacman founded at age 16 in his parents' basement after dropping out of high school. He is still the CEO.
Current ISS crew names are in bold. The suffix (twice, thrice, ...) refers to the individual's number of spaceflights to the ISS, not the total number of spaceflights. Entries are noted with for women and for men. This list only includes crew members of the ISS. For a list including non-crew, see List of visitors to the International Space Station.
Name Birth date Country Comment Missions (launch date) 1 Valentina Tereshkova Mar. 6, 1937 Soviet Union: First woman in space. Only woman to make a solo spaceflight. Vostok 6 (Jun. 16, 1963) [6] 2 Svetlana Savitskaya Aug. 8, 1948 Soviet Union: First woman to fly on a space station (Salyut 7, 1982). First woman to perform a spacewalk (Jul. 25 ...
Countries (and successor states) whose citizens have flown in space as of January 2024. The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres (62 mi), while in the United States, professional, military and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (80 ...
The second Canadian astronaut group were selected by CSA. McKay was selected as an alternate after Robert Stewart left the Canadian Space Agency program to accept a position at the University of Calgary. [13] All the astronauts flew on the US Space Shuttle except Michael McKay, who resigned due to medical reasons. May 15 – 1992 ESA Group (ESA)