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…
Sullivan was selected as a NASA astronaut candidate with NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first group to include women; the group also included Sally Ride and Judith Resnik.
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.
KathrynD. Sullivan je první Američankou, která vystoupila do volného prostoru. Ve volném prostoru strávila 3,5 hodiny. Nyní se však zapsala do dějin, protože nejen že byla vysoko nad zemí ve vesmíru, ale současně se 7.