Barbara Radding Morgan
NASA astronaut and teacher
Category Archives: Aeronautics
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Dr Patricia Hilliard Robertson
US astronaut and medical doctor
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
US astronaut and engineer
Col. Anne C McClain
US astronaut and army engineer
Jessica Wittner
Astronaut, Navy machinist and engineer
Dr Rhea Seddon
Astronaut and medical doctor
Dr Karen L Nyberg
NASA astronaut and engineer
Dr Judith Resnik
NASA astronaut and biomedical engineer
Dr Claudia J Alexander
Dr. Alexander’s role in the Rosetta mission, the first to land on a comet, was not her only triumph. She was also a project manager on NASA’s Galileo mission to Jupiter and was a member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As a researcher, Alexander’s studies included the evolution and interior physics of comets, Jupiter and its moons, magnetospheres, plate tectonics, space plasma, the solar wind and the planet Venus. She wrote or co-authored 14 papers.
Dr Tracy Caldwell Dyson
Tracy C. Dyson has a Ph.D. in Chemistry, and is a veteran of three space flights. Dr. Dyson has designed, constructed and implemented electronics and hardware for the study of atmospheric gas phase chemistry, and has developed and presented numerous papers on methods of chemical ionization for the spectral interpretation of trace compounds.