Kathryn D. Sullivan
Kathryn D. Sullivan is an astronaut from United States of America affiliated with the government agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration, embarked on 3 space flights and engaging in 1 spacewalk(s) during his/her career as an astronaut.
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan is an American geologist and a former NASA astronaut. A crew member on three Space Shuttle missions, she was the first American woman to walk in space on October 11, 1984. She was Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 6, 2014. Sullivan's tenure ended on January 20, 2017 with the swearing in of President Donald Trump. Following completion of her service at NOAA, she was designated as the 2017 Charles A. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, and has also served as a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.
- Date of Birth: 10/03/1951
- Status: Retired
- First Flight: 10/05/1984
- Last Flight: 03/24/1992
- In Space: No
Launches
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-41-G
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-31 (Hubble)
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-45
Spacewalk
STS-41-G EVA
The spacewalk began at 10/11/1984 15:38 UTC and ended at 10/11/1984 19:05 UTC on the Low Earth Orbit for a total of 3 hours and 27 minutes.
