1. Stephanie Diana Wilson was born on September 27,1966 and is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut.
24 Facts About Stephanie Wilson
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Stephanie Wilson flew to space onboard three Space Shuttle missions and is the second African American woman to go into space after Mae Jemison.
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Stephanie Wilson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 27,1966.
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In high school, Eugene encouraged Stephanie Wilson to go into engineering, so she decided to become an aerospace engineer.
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Stephanie Wilson graduated from Taconic High School, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1984.
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Stephanie Wilson attended Harvard University, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering science in 1988.
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Stephanie Wilson earned a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas in 1992.
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Stephanie Wilson has returned to Harvard as a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.
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Stephanie Wilson was the Chief Marshal for the 362nd Harvard Commencement on May 30,2013.
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Stephanie Wilson worked for two years for the former Martin Marietta Astronautics Group in Denver, Colorado.
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Stephanie Wilson left Martin Marietta in 1990 to attend graduate school at the University of Texas.
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Stephanie Wilson's research focused on the control and modeling of large, flexible space structures.
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Stephanie Wilson worked in the areas of sequence development and testing as well.
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Stephanie Wilson was initially assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Space Station Operations Branch to work with Space Station payload displays and procedures.
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Stephanie Wilson then served in the Astronaut Office CAPCOM Branch, working in Mission Control as a prime communicator with on-orbit crews.
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Stephanie Wilson flew on the STS-120 mission that delivered the Harmony connecting module to the International Space Station.
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On October 18,2019, Stephanie Wilson was ground controller at Houston for the first all woman spacewalk by Christina Koch and Jessica Meir.
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On December 9,2020, NASA announced that Stephanie Wilson was among the candidates for the Artemis program, and if selected, she could be both the first woman and the first African-American on the Moon.
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On January 31,2024, NASA announced that Stephanie Wilson would fly as mission specialist on the SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station.
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However, when NASA decided to return the Boeing Starliner capsule on the Boeing Crew Flight Test uncrewed, Wilson was removed from Crew-9, along with commander and fellow astronaut Zena Cardman, to make room on the return journey for the Starliner astronauts, Barry E Wilmore and Sunita Williams.
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Stephanie Wilson supported robotic arm operations for vehicle inspection, Multi-Purpose Logistics Module installation and EVAs and was responsible for transferring more than 28,000 pounds of supplies and equipment to the ISS.
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Stephanie Wilson has been selected as one of eighteen astronauts comprising the Artemis team.
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Stephanie Wilson is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
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Stephanie Wilson married Julius "BJ" McCurdy, a television producer, in June 1999.