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Shannon Walker
Shannon Walker (born June 4, 1965) is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut selected in 2004. She launched on her first mission into space on June 25, 2010, on board Soyuz TMA-19 and spent over 163 days in space.
She returned to space for her second long-duration mission on November 15, 2020, on board SpaceX Crew-1, the first operational flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Walker was born in Southwest Houston, where she graduated from Westbury High School in 1983.
She studied physics at Rice University in Texas, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in physics in 1987.
Walker began her professional career with the Rockwell Space Operations Company at the Johnson Space Center later that year as a robotics flight controller for the Space Shuttle program. She worked several Space Shuttle missions as a flight controller in the Mission Control Center, including STS-27, STS-32, STS-51, STS-56, STS-60, STS-61, and STS-66.
From 1990 to 1993, Walker took a leave of absence from Johnson Space Center to attend graduate school, where her area of study was the solar wind interaction with the Venusian atmosphere. She received a Master of Science and a PhD in Space Physics from Rice University in 1992 and 1993.
In 1995, she joined the NASA civil service and began working in the International Space Station (ISS) Program at the Johnson Space Center.
Walker worked in robotics integration, working with the ISS International Partners to design and build the robotics hardware for the Space Station. In 1998, she joined the ISS Mission Evaluation Room (MER) as a manager for coordinating on-orbit problem resolution for the ISS.
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Shannon Walker
Shannon Walker (born June 4, 1965) is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut selected in 2004. She launched on her first mission into space on June 25, 2010, on board Soyuz TMA-19 and spent over 163 days in space.
She returned to space for her second long-duration mission on November 15, 2020, on board SpaceX Crew-1, the first operational flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Walker was born in Southwest Houston, where she graduated from Westbury High School in 1983.
She studied physics at Rice University in Texas, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in physics in 1987.
Walker began her professional career with the Rockwell Space Operations Company at the Johnson Space Center later that year as a robotics flight controller for the Space Shuttle program. She worked several Space Shuttle missions as a flight controller in the Mission Control Center, including STS-27, STS-32, STS-51, STS-56, STS-60, STS-61, and STS-66.
From 1990 to 1993, Walker took a leave of absence from Johnson Space Center to attend graduate school, where her area of study was the solar wind interaction with the Venusian atmosphere. She received a Master of Science and a PhD in Space Physics from Rice University in 1992 and 1993.
In 1995, she joined the NASA civil service and began working in the International Space Station (ISS) Program at the Johnson Space Center.
Walker worked in robotics integration, working with the ISS International Partners to design and build the robotics hardware for the Space Station. In 1998, she joined the ISS Mission Evaluation Room (MER) as a manager for coordinating on-orbit problem resolution for the ISS.
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