| NASA Center: |
Johnson Space Center |
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| Image # : |
UNKNOWN1 |
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| Date : |
02/28/1979
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Title
First Class of Female Astronauts
Full Description
From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon,
Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and
Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first
female astronaut candidates in January 1978, allowing them to
enroll in a training program that they completed in August 1979.
Shannon W. Lucid was born on January 14, 1943 in Shanghai, China
but considers Bethany, Oklahoma to be her hometown. She spent
many years at the University of Oklahoma, receiving a Bachelor
in chemistry in 1963, a Master in biochemistry in 1970, and a
Doctorate in biochemistry in 1973. Dr. Lucid flew on the
STS-51G Discovery, STS-34 Atlantis, STS-43 Atlantis, and STS-58
Columbia shuttle missions, setting the record for female
astronauts by logging 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. She
also currently holds the United States single mission space
flight endurance record for her 188 days on the Russian Space
Station Mir. From February 2002 to September 2003, she served
as chief scientist at NASA Headquarters before returning to JSC
to help with the Return to Flight program after the STS-107
accident.
Born November 8, 1947, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Margaret Rhea
Seddon received a Doctorate of Medicine in 1973 from the
University of Tennessee. She flew on space missions STS-51
Discovery, STS-40 Columbia, and STS-58 Columbia for a total of
over 722 hours in space. Dr. Seddon retired from NASA in
November 1997, taking on a position as the Assistant Chief
Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Medical Group in Nashville,
Tennessee.
Kathryn Sullivan was born October 3, 1951 in Patterson, New
Jersey but considers Woodland Hills, California to be her
hometown. She received a Bachelor in Earth Sciences from the
University of California, Santa Cruz in 1973 and a Doctorate in
Geology from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in
1978. She flew on space missions STS-41G, STS-31, and STS-45
and logged a total of 532 hours in space. Dr. Sullivan left
NASA in August 1992 to assume the position of Chief Scientist of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). She
later went on to serve as President and CEO of the Center of
Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio.
Dr. Judith Resnik was born April 5, 1949 in Akron, Ohio. She
received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970, and a Doctorate in
Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland in 1977. Dr.
Resnik left a job as a senior systems engineer in product
development with Xerox Corporation at El Segundo, California to
work for NASA in 1978. She died on January 28, 1986 on her
second mission, during the launch of Challenger STS-51-L.
Anna Fisher was born August 24, 1949 in New York City, New York
hometown. She received a Doctorate in Medicine in 1976 and a
Master of Science in Chemistry in 1987, both from the University
of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Fisher flew on STS-51A, the
Space Shuttle Discovery's November 8, 1984 mission, and logged
192 hours in space; her second schedule mission was cancelled
after the Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L accident. She
remains with NASA, where she has filled many positions over
decades of service.
Dr. Sally Ride was the first American woman in space. Born on
May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, she went on to receive
a Bachelor in Physics and English in 1973 from Stanford
University and, later, a Master in Physics in 1975 and a
Doctorate in Physics in 1978, also from Stanford. She began her
astronaut career as a mission specialist on STS-7, which
launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on June 18, 1983,
and later went on to fly on STS-41G. She withdrew from
training for her third scheduled mission in order to serve on
the investigative committee for the Space Shuttle Challenger
accident and never returned to training, although she went on to
work for headquarters and later to serve on the Columbia
Accident Investigation Board before returning to the private
sector as a physics professor.
Keywords
Shannon Lucid Sally Ride Judith Resnik Anna Fisher Margaret Rhea Seddon Kathryn Sullivan female astronauts first women
Subject Category
Astronauts, Women,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
JSC
- Center Number:
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- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2004-00025
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