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This astronaut visited the International Space Station.
Bio
Shannon is a veteran astronaut with one long duration mission lasting 163 days to her name. She holds a Master’s Degree in physics with a speciality in the solar wind’s interaction with Venus’ atmosphere.
She served as a robotics flight controller during the Space Shuttle era and was chosen in 2004 as an astronaut. She was the only NASA member of that class to never fly a Shuttle mission. She will be the first woman to fly on a U.S. spacecraft since Sandy Magnus on Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) in July 2011.
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Shannon Walker is an American physicist and NASA astronaut selected in 2004. She launched on her first mission on June 25th, 2010 onboard Soyuz TMA-19 and has currently logged 163 days in space over one long-duration mission to the International Space Station. She is scheduled to return to the ISS for a second long-duration flight in late 2020 onboard USCV-1, the first operational flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.