Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Space Connection
Hi everyone, My company blog site is w.w.w. get-packin.com. It has a breif article about Stephanie. Mainly is about my account of the Space Shuttle adventure. So check it out. Love ya, Cousin Penny
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Stephanie Wilson: Second African-American woman in space
Astronaut Stephanie D. Wilson
Second African-American woman in space
Revised 4/21/10
Stephanie Wilson was selected by NASA in 1996, becoming one of only four African-American female astronauts to serve in the Astronaut Corps.
After ten years of service with NASA, Stephanie became the second African-American woman astronaut to travel in space, making her 2006 voyage fourteen years after Dr. Mae Jemison’s historic flight in 1992.
Stephanie was assigned to the return-to-flight test mission and assembly flight aboard Shuttle Discovery with STS-121, NASA’s first Independence Day shuttle mission. Stephanie served as a mission specialist 3 with duties to operate the shuttle and station robotic arm and transfer supplies and equipment to the International Space Station (ISS).
In 2007, a mere fifteen months after her first flight mission, Stephanie was assigned to her second space flight with STS 120 as the flight engineer and lead space shuttle robotic arm operator. The primary goal of this mission was to install the Italian-built laboratory (NODE 2) module and to relocate and deploy the P6 solar array.
In 2008, NASA assigned Stephanie to her third space flight with STS-131 aboard Shuttle Discovery. The fifteen day mission was scheduled to launch in April of 2010. This mission will deliver a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module filled with science experiments, supplies and critical spare parts to the International Space Station (ISS). Stephanie will serve as mission specialist 3.
A native of Massachusetts, Stephanie Wilson, received an engineering science degree from Harvard University and a master degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for
Harvard University.
A veteran of three space flights, Stephanie has logged over 43 days in space, the most space hours logged by an African-American female astronaut. She is the only African-American female to have flown on multiple space missions.
Stephanie continues to make history one mission at a time.
This document is approved by the
Stephanie Wilson’s Ground Crew
Second African-American woman in space
Revised 4/21/10
Stephanie Wilson was selected by NASA in 1996, becoming one of only four African-American female astronauts to serve in the Astronaut Corps.
After ten years of service with NASA, Stephanie became the second African-American woman astronaut to travel in space, making her 2006 voyage fourteen years after Dr. Mae Jemison’s historic flight in 1992.
Stephanie was assigned to the return-to-flight test mission and assembly flight aboard Shuttle Discovery with STS-121, NASA’s first Independence Day shuttle mission. Stephanie served as a mission specialist 3 with duties to operate the shuttle and station robotic arm and transfer supplies and equipment to the International Space Station (ISS).
In 2007, a mere fifteen months after her first flight mission, Stephanie was assigned to her second space flight with STS 120 as the flight engineer and lead space shuttle robotic arm operator. The primary goal of this mission was to install the Italian-built laboratory (NODE 2) module and to relocate and deploy the P6 solar array.
In 2008, NASA assigned Stephanie to her third space flight with STS-131 aboard Shuttle Discovery. The fifteen day mission was scheduled to launch in April of 2010. This mission will deliver a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module filled with science experiments, supplies and critical spare parts to the International Space Station (ISS). Stephanie will serve as mission specialist 3.
A native of Massachusetts, Stephanie Wilson, received an engineering science degree from Harvard University and a master degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for
Harvard University.
A veteran of three space flights, Stephanie has logged over 43 days in space, the most space hours logged by an African-American female astronaut. She is the only African-American female to have flown on multiple space missions.
Stephanie continues to make history one mission at a time.
This document is approved by the
Stephanie Wilson’s Ground Crew
Astronaut Stephanie D. Wilson
Second African-American woman in space
Revised 4/21/10
Stephanie Wilson was selected by NASA in 1996, becoming one of only four African-American female astronauts to serve in the Astronaut Corps.
After ten years of service with NASA, Stephanie became the second African-American woman astronaut to travel in space, making her 2006 voyage fourteen years after Dr. Mae Jemison’s historic flight in 1992.
Stephanie was assigned to the return-to-flight test mission and assembly flight aboard Shuttle Discovery with STS-121, NASA’s first Independence Day shuttle mission. Stephanie served as a mission specialist 3 with duties to operate the shuttle and station robotic arm and transfer supplies and equipment to the International Space Station (ISS).
In 2007, a mere fifteen months after her first flight mission, Stephanie was assigned to her second space flight with STS 120 as the flight engineer and lead space shuttle robotic arm operator. The primary goal of this mission was to install the Italian-built laboratory (NODE 2) module and to relocate and deploy the P6 solar array.
In 2008, NASA assigned Stephanie to her third space flight with STS-131 aboard Shuttle Discovery. The fifteen day mission was scheduled to launch in April of 2010. This mission will deliver a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module filled with science experiments, supplies and critical spare parts to the International Space Station (ISS). Stephanie will serve as mission specialist 3.
A native of Massachusetts, Stephanie Wilson, received an engineering science degree from Harvard University and a master degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for
Harvard University.
A veteran of three space flights, Stephanie has logged over 43 days in space, the most space hours logged by an African-American female astronaut. She is the only African-American female to have flown on multiple space missions.
Stephanie continues to make history one mission at a time.
This document is approved by the
Stephanie Wilson’s Ground Crew
Second African-American woman in space
Revised 4/21/10
Stephanie Wilson was selected by NASA in 1996, becoming one of only four African-American female astronauts to serve in the Astronaut Corps.
After ten years of service with NASA, Stephanie became the second African-American woman astronaut to travel in space, making her 2006 voyage fourteen years after Dr. Mae Jemison’s historic flight in 1992.
Stephanie was assigned to the return-to-flight test mission and assembly flight aboard Shuttle Discovery with STS-121, NASA’s first Independence Day shuttle mission. Stephanie served as a mission specialist 3 with duties to operate the shuttle and station robotic arm and transfer supplies and equipment to the International Space Station (ISS).
In 2007, a mere fifteen months after her first flight mission, Stephanie was assigned to her second space flight with STS 120 as the flight engineer and lead space shuttle robotic arm operator. The primary goal of this mission was to install the Italian-built laboratory (NODE 2) module and to relocate and deploy the P6 solar array.
In 2008, NASA assigned Stephanie to her third space flight with STS-131 aboard Shuttle Discovery. The fifteen day mission was scheduled to launch in April of 2010. This mission will deliver a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module filled with science experiments, supplies and critical spare parts to the International Space Station (ISS). Stephanie will serve as mission specialist 3.
A native of Massachusetts, Stephanie Wilson, received an engineering science degree from Harvard University and a master degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for
Harvard University.
A veteran of three space flights, Stephanie has logged over 43 days in space, the most space hours logged by an African-American female astronaut. She is the only African-American female to have flown on multiple space missions.
Stephanie continues to make history one mission at a time.
This document is approved by the
Stephanie Wilson’s Ground Crew
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Stephanie Article
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Discovery's space station visit took a sudden pop-cultural turn Thursday when one of the four record-breaking female astronauts went on talk radio from orbit to chat about her career, iPod selections and even her hairdo.
Stephanie Wilson was a good sport as she answered questions from nationally syndicated talk show host Tom Joyner, whose shows are broadcast on blackamericaweb.com. He noted there are more women in orbit right now than ever before, then asked: "Did you get your hair done before you went up in space?"
Wilson threw back her head and laughed.
"Of course, I always try to represent NASA as best I can," she said. "So hopefully, I'm looking pretty good."
Wilson, among only a handful of black women to fly in space, turned serious when answering Joyner's questions about how she got into "the business of space shuttling" and how parents can encourage their children to follow her example.
The 43-year-old engineer said it was important to study hard and be exposed to as many opportunities as possible, in order to "dream big dreams." She's one of three women who flew up on Discovery and joined one already at the International Space Station, making for the biggest female crowd ever to circle the planet.
Joyner, in Orlando as part of a 2010 census tour, asked Wilson if she filled out her census form before she rocketed into space Monday. She did, "but I did have to file an extension on my taxes." As for her iPod selections aboard the shuttle-station complex: peppy tunes for exercising and spiritual music for relaxing.
Earlier Thursday, Wilson helped attach a compartment full of newly delivered goods to the space station, enough to keep the lab complex running for years to come. She used a robot arm to hoist the 13-ton cargo carrier from Discovery's payload bay.
And for the second day in a row, huge reams of shuttle images streamed from the space station down to Mission Control. The files contained 3-D laser shots of Discovery, hobbled by a broken antenna and unable to transmit or receive large packages of information.
The shuttle astronauts had to wait until they got to the space station Wednesday before they could send down the wing and nose images they gathered Tuesday. NASA needs to review each image — searching for any launch damage to the heat shields — before committing Discovery to re-entry on April 18.
It took considerably longer than expected to get all the files down. The files are huge — about 40 gigabytes altogether, considerably bigger than what usually flows from the space station. Flight controllers, with help from the astronauts, had to work around unexpected software features that slowed down the process, flight director Courtenay McMillan said.
There is no reason to suspect Discovery suffered serious damage during Monday's liftoff. But ever since the 2003 Columbia tragedy, a shuttle's wings and nose must be surveyed at least twice on every mission, using a 100-foot laser-tipped boom.
The second survey normally occurs right after undocking. But because of the antenna failure, the inspection will be conducted while Discovery is still docked to the space station, to take advantage of the space station's relay system.
McMillan said it's too soon to say whether Discovery will have to spend an extra day at the orbiting outpost. Another option would be to cut out some originally planned work in order to squeeze in the survey, and have the shuttle leave on time on April 16.
"Everything's on the table at this point," McMillan said.
Three spacewalks are planned to replace a depleted ammonia tank that is part of the space station's cooling system. The first will take place Friday.
Stephanie Wilson was a good sport as she answered questions from nationally syndicated talk show host Tom Joyner, whose shows are broadcast on blackamericaweb.com. He noted there are more women in orbit right now than ever before, then asked: "Did you get your hair done before you went up in space?"
Wilson threw back her head and laughed.
"Of course, I always try to represent NASA as best I can," she said. "So hopefully, I'm looking pretty good."
Wilson, among only a handful of black women to fly in space, turned serious when answering Joyner's questions about how she got into "the business of space shuttling" and how parents can encourage their children to follow her example.
The 43-year-old engineer said it was important to study hard and be exposed to as many opportunities as possible, in order to "dream big dreams." She's one of three women who flew up on Discovery and joined one already at the International Space Station, making for the biggest female crowd ever to circle the planet.
Joyner, in Orlando as part of a 2010 census tour, asked Wilson if she filled out her census form before she rocketed into space Monday. She did, "but I did have to file an extension on my taxes." As for her iPod selections aboard the shuttle-station complex: peppy tunes for exercising and spiritual music for relaxing.
Earlier Thursday, Wilson helped attach a compartment full of newly delivered goods to the space station, enough to keep the lab complex running for years to come. She used a robot arm to hoist the 13-ton cargo carrier from Discovery's payload bay.
And for the second day in a row, huge reams of shuttle images streamed from the space station down to Mission Control. The files contained 3-D laser shots of Discovery, hobbled by a broken antenna and unable to transmit or receive large packages of information.
The shuttle astronauts had to wait until they got to the space station Wednesday before they could send down the wing and nose images they gathered Tuesday. NASA needs to review each image — searching for any launch damage to the heat shields — before committing Discovery to re-entry on April 18.
It took considerably longer than expected to get all the files down. The files are huge — about 40 gigabytes altogether, considerably bigger than what usually flows from the space station. Flight controllers, with help from the astronauts, had to work around unexpected software features that slowed down the process, flight director Courtenay McMillan said.
There is no reason to suspect Discovery suffered serious damage during Monday's liftoff. But ever since the 2003 Columbia tragedy, a shuttle's wings and nose must be surveyed at least twice on every mission, using a 100-foot laser-tipped boom.
The second survey normally occurs right after undocking. But because of the antenna failure, the inspection will be conducted while Discovery is still docked to the space station, to take advantage of the space station's relay system.
McMillan said it's too soon to say whether Discovery will have to spend an extra day at the orbiting outpost. Another option would be to cut out some originally planned work in order to squeeze in the survey, and have the shuttle leave on time on April 16.
"Everything's on the table at this point," McMillan said.
Three spacewalks are planned to replace a depleted ammonia tank that is part of the space station's cooling system. The first will take place Friday.
Here is Stephanie!!!
We saw Stephanie for the first time on Easter day; the day before her launch. It was very exciting to see her! Doesn't she look cute with her Bunny Ears?
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Hey Family and Friends! Please post your pics, videos, and messages related only to the STS-131 events (to avoid a extremely long blog). Additional family photos can be shared through your personal email/photo account. Please remember to edit your videos (i.e., try not to post videos that are super long) before uploading on the site. Sonya
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