Jessica Wittner
Astronaut, Navy machinist and engineer
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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.
Christina Koch
Christina Hammock Koch was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013. She served as flight engineer on the International Space Station (ISS) for Expedition 59, 60 and 61. Koch set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days in space and participated in the first all-female spacewalk.
Commander Susan Kilrain
Commander Kilrain was commissioned in 1985 and designated a naval aviator in 1987; she has logged over 3,000 flight hours in more than 30 different aircraft. A veteran of two space flights, she has logged over 471 hours in space.
Janet Kavandi
Janet L. Kavandi served as center director at NASA’s Glenn Research Center from March 14, 2016 until September 30, 2019, navigating the center through a government shutdown, the first steps in a major agency reorganization, and the introduction of NASA’s ambitious Artemis program.
Nicole Aunapu Mann
Colonel Nicole Mann launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, Endurance, on October 5, 2022. The Crew-5 astronauts lived and worked aboard the ISS for nearly six months as part of Expedition 68.