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.

Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-41-G

Lockheed Space Operations Company | USA
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 5, 1984, 11:03 a.m.

Status: Success

Mission: Earth Science

STS-41-G was the thirteenth flight of the shuttle program and sixth of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It was the second landing made at the Kenendy Space Center. It was the first crew to carry two women, the first American EVA involving a woman, the first Australian Astronaut and first Canadian Astronaut.

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Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-31

United Space Alliance | USA
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 24, 1990, 12:33 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission: Astrophysics

STS-31 was the thirty-fifth mission of the space shuttle program. Discovery's tenth mission deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-45

United Space Alliance | USA
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 24, 1992, 1:13 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission: Unknown

STS-45 was a 1992 Space Shuttle mission using the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Its almost nine-day scientific mission was with a non-deployable payload of instruments. It was the 46th Space Shuttle mission and the 11th for Atlantis.

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