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Stephanie Wilson

Engineer & NASA Astronaut; Second African-American Woman To Go Into Space

Stephanie Wilson is an engineer and NASA astronaut. She was the second African-American woman.

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Stephanie Wilson is an engineer and NASA astronaut. She was the second African-American woman to go into space and has spent the most time in space of any African-American, male or female. Wilson is a veteran of three spaceflights: 2006’s STS-121, 2007’s STS-120, and 2010’s STS-131. As a member of the Astronaut Office, she is currently the Mission Support Crew Branch Chief.

Wilson graduated from Taconic High School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1984, received a bachelor of science degree in Engineering Science from Harvard University in 1988, and a master of science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas in 1992. Her research focused on the control and modeling of large, flexible space structures.

From 1988 to 1990, Wilson worked for the former Martin Marietta Astronautics Group in Denver, Colorado. As a loads and dynamics engineer for Titan IV, she was responsible for performing coupled loads analyses for the launch vehicle and payloads during flight events.

Following the completion of her graduate work, she began working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in 1992. As a member of the Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystem for the Galileo spacecraft, Wilson worked in the areas of sequence development and testing and was responsible for assessing attitude controller performance, science platform pointing accuracy, antenna pointing accuracy, and spin rate accuracy. While at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Wilson also supported the Interferometry Technology Program as a member of the Integrated Modeling Team, which was responsible for finite element modeling, controller design, and software development.

Selected by NASA in April 1996, Wilson reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996.

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