Ellen S. Baker
- STS -34 ( 1989)
- STS -50 ( 1992)
- STS -71 (1995)
Ellen Louise Shulman Baker ( * April 27, 1953 as Ellen Louise Shulman in Fayetteville, North Carolina) is a former American astronaut of NASA. She is married and has two children.
Baker graduated in 1970 from the Bayside High School in New York and enrolled at the State University of New York to study Geology, which it completed in 1974 with a bachelor's degree. In 1978 she received his doctorate from Cornell University in medicine. Then she made a specialty training and received their approval after three years as an internist. From the University of Texas she also earned a master's in 1994 as a general practitioner.
NASA activities
Baker resigned after their training in 1981 as a medical doctor at the Johnson Space Center (JSC ) in the service of NASA. In the same year she graduated from the Aerospace Medicine Course U.S. Air Force at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio ( Texas). Prior to her selection as an astronaut in May 1984, she was employed as a physician at the hospital of the JSC. The training of an astronaut completed after one year. Baker resigned in December 2011 from NASA.
STS -34
STS -34 was Baker's first space flight. She was a mission specialist part of the Atlantis crew, which took off on 18 October 1989 by the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on October 23. During the flight, among other things, the Galileo spacecraft was exposed to Jupiter exploration.
STS -50
On STS -50 Baker also took as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia in part from 25 June to 9 July 1992. It was the first flight of the " United States Microgravity Laboratory " and the first shuttle flight, which went through a period of two weeks.
STS -71
STS -71 was the first shuttle mission that docked with the Russian Mir station, for which the Space Shuttle Atlantis was equipped with a special coupling. While staying the crew of the Mir has been replaced. The Atlantis lifted on 27 June 1995 from Kennedy Space Center with seven crew members and landed there again with eight astronauts on July 7.