Stephanie Wilson
- STS- 121 (2006)
- STS- 120 (2007)
- STS- 131 (2010)
Stephanie Diana Wilson ( born September 27, 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is an American astronaut.
Training
The parents Eugene and Barbara Wilson moved from Boston to the small town of Pittsfield (Massachusetts), when her daughter was a little girl. There, Wilson visited by the Stearns Elementary School Crosby Elementary School and finally the Taconic High School. In 1984 she began studying at the famous Harvard University in Cambridge. Shortly after the educational institution celebrated its 350 anniversary, Wilson made in 1988 her Bachelor in engineering sciences. In addition, she received from the University of Texas in 1992 a Master's in Aeronautics and Astronautics.
After graduating from Harvard, Wilson worked for two years at Martin Marietta Astronautics Group in Denver (Colorado), called since 1995 Lockheed Martin. She conducted stress calculations to analyze the loads that occur on a Titan IV rocket at launch. Then she continued her studies in 1990 in Texas. Immediately after leaving the University of Texas, she found a job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL ) in Pasadena ( California). She was a member of the attitude control inspection teams of the Galileo probe. She drew particular responsible for the orientation of the scientific platform and the antenna. In addition, Wilson was working on a program of JPL Interferometry.
Astronauts activity
Stephanie Wilson was selected in April 1996 for the astronaut program at NASA. The two-year basic training began for her and her 34 classmates (inside) in August. Since autumn 1998 she has been a full-fledged mission specialist. It was followed by a training phase in which they experiment with processes on the International Space Station (ISS) became familiar. She then worked for a time as CapCom before she was transferred to the department operating the Space Shuttle, where she dealt with the drive units of the Shuttle.
Wilson received its first order for a space flight in December 2002. Along with James Halsell as Commander Alan Poindexter as a pilot, and Piers Sellers, Wendy Lawrence and Mike Foreman as mission specialists, should they form the crew of STS- 120. The supply flight to the ISS was scheduled for February 2004 and should expand to the connection module Harmony the next station. Because of the Columbia accident a year before the flight planning of the shuttle program had to be changed.
STS -121
In November 2004, Stephanie Wilson was assigned to the crew of STS- 121. The mission was carried out according to several shifts in July 2006. Main tasks were once prove that the angegangenen after STS- 107 and STS -114 Space Shuttle improvements to the work, and on the other to provide the ISS with goods as well as to reinforce their two -man crew by an astronaut. Thus, since the ISS Expedition 6 three astronauts back to work on the station. In addition, the shuttle crew conducted three spacewalks work before the flight came to an end after two weeks. Together with her colleague, Lisa Nowak, she was responsible for all work with the robotic arms on this flight.
STS -120
Wilson was late January 2007, again nominated for mission STS- 120. When Neubekanntgabe the team in June 2006, she was initially ignored. Half a year later, Michael Foreman STS -123 has been allocated and Wilson moved after. She was mission specialist of the STS -120 flight, which was conducted between 23 October and 7 November 2007.
STS -131
On 5 December 2008 Wilson was named as a mission specialist on STS- 131. The launch took place on April 5, 2010, the landing on April 20, 2010.
Private
Wilson is married and has no children.