Dr. KathrynSullivan joined NASA as part of its 1978 astronaut class. As one of NASA's first six women astronauts, Sullivan was the first to perform a spacewalk.
On October 11, 1984, a female American astronaut stepped outside her spacecraft for the first time. KathrynD. “Kathy” Sullivan had work to do in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Challenger, a mobile workplace travelling 17,500 miles…
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan (born October 3, 1951) is an American geologist and a former NASA astronaut. A crew member on three Space Shuttle missions, she was the first American woman to walk in space on October 11, 1984.
KathrynD. Sullivan is a NASA astronaut (retired), former Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and an inductee in the Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Tato autorka, oceňovaná kosmonautka a bývalá vedoucí Národního úřadu pro oceány a atmosféru (NOAA), přináší do své práce jedinečný pohled na průzkum a vědu. Její psaní čerpá z hlubokých zkušeností s překonáváním hranic lidského poznání.