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…
Před 11 měsíciForty years ago, in October 1984, KathrynD. Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space. But being the first presented several challenges
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.