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词条 Stephanie Wilson
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

     Engineering  NASA  Spaceflight experience  STS-121  STS-120  STS-131 

  3. Personal life

  4. Awards and honors

  5. See also

  6. References

{{Infobox astronaut
| name = Stephanie Wilson
| image = Stephanie Wilson in 2008.jpg
| caption = Wilson in 2008
| type = NASA Astronaut
| status = Active
| nationality = American
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|9|27|mf=yes}}
| death_date =
| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.[1]
| death_place =
| occupation = Engineer
| rank =
| selection = 1996 NASA Group
| space_time = 42 days, 23 hours, 46 minutes
| missions = STS-121, STS-120, STS-131
| insignia =
}}

Stephanie Diana Wilson (born September 27, 1966) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She flew to space onboard three Space Shuttle missions, and is the second African American woman to go into space, after Mae Jemison. Her 42 days in space are the most of any African American astronaut, male or female.

Early life and education

Stephanie Wilson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 27, 1966. About a year later, her parents, Eugene and Barbara Wilson,[2] decided to move to Pittsfield, Massachusetts.[3] Eugene, a native of Nesmith, South Carolina, used his electronics training from his time in the Navy to get himself a degree from Northeastern University and a long career in electrical engineering for Raytheon, Sprague Electric, and Lockheed Martin,[2][4] while Barbara worked as a production assistant for Lockheed Martin.[2] After attending Stearns Elementary School, she attended Crosby Junior High School.[5] For a career awareness class in middle school, Wilson was assigned to interview someone in a field that interested her. Since she liked to look up at the sky,[6] she interviewed Williams College astronomer Jay Pasachoff,[5], clarifying her potential career interest in space. In high school, Eugene encouraged Stephanie to go into engineering,[2] so she decided to become an aerospace engineer. Wilson graduated from Taconic High School, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1984. She attended Harvard University, receiving a bachelor of science degree in engineering science in 1988. Wilson earned a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas, in 1992.[1] Wilson has returned to Harvard as a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.[7] She was the Chief Marshal for the 362nd Harvard Commencement on May 30, 2013.[8]

Career

Engineering

Wilson worked for two years for the former Martin Marietta Astronautics Group in Denver, Colorado. As a Loads and Dynamics engineer for the Titan IV rocket, Wilson was responsible for performing coupled loads analyses for the launch vehicle and payloads during flight events. Wilson left Martin Marietta in 1990 to attend graduate school at the University of Texas. Her research focused on the control and modeling of large, flexible space structures.

Following the completion of her graduate work, Wilson 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 was responsible for assessing attitude controller performance, science platform pointing accuracy, antenna pointing accuracy and spin rate accuracy. She worked in the areas of sequence development and testing as well. While at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Wilson also supported the Interferometery Technology Program as a member of the Integrated Modeling Team, which was responsible for finite element modeling, controller design, and software development.

NASA

Selected by NASA as an Astronaut Candidate in April 1996, Wilson reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. Having completed two years of training and evaluation, she is qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. She was initially assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Space Station Operations Branch to work with Space Station payload displays and procedures. She then served in the Astronaut Office CAPCOM Branch, working in Mission Control as a prime communicator with on-orbit crews. Following her work in Mission Control, Wilson was assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Shuttle Operations Branch involving the Space Shuttle Main Engines, External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters.

Stephanie has flown on three shuttle missions. On STS-121, Wilson flew aboard as a mission specialist. She also flew on the STS-120 mission that delivered the Harmony connecting module to the International Space Station.[9][10][11] In April 2010, Wilson flew as a Mission Specialist on STS-131.

Spaceflight experience

STS-121

STS-121 (July 4–17, 2006), was a return-to-flight test mission and assembly flight to the International Space Station. During the 13-day flight the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery tested new equipment and procedures that increase the safety of space shuttles, repaired a rail car on the International Space Station and produced never-before-seen, high-resolution images of the Shuttle during and after its July 4 launch. Wilson supported robotic arm operations for vehicle inspection, Multi-Purpose Logistics Module installation and EVAs and was responsible for the transfer of more than 28,000 pounds of supplies and equipment to the ISS. The crew also performed maintenance on the space station and delivered a new Expedition 13 crew member to the station. The mission was accomplished in 306 hours, 37 minutes and 54 seconds.

STS-120
STS-120 (October 23 – November 7, 2007) was a 6.25 million mile Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS).[12] It delivered the Harmony module, and reconfigured the P6 truss in preparation for future assembly missions.[13] STS-120 carried a new Expedition 16 crewmember, Daniel Tani, and returned Expedition 15 and Expedition 16 crewmember Clayton Anderson. The crew conducted four spacewalks and performed a previously untested repair method on the station's solar array. The mission was accomplished in 15 days, 2 hours, 23 minutes, during 238 orbits.[14]
STS-131

STS-131 (April 5–20, 2010) was a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Space Shuttle Discovery was launched pre-dawn from Kennedy Space Center. Once docked to the space station, the crew delivered more than 27,000 pounds of hardware, supplies, experiments and equipment, including a tank full of ammonia coolant that required three spacewalks and robotics to install, new crew sleeping quarters, a window observation facility and a freezer for experiments. During the mission, Wilson was responsible for robotics for spacewalking support using the space station robotic arm and for robotic removal of the "Leonardo" Multi-Purpose Logistics Module from the payload bay of Discovery. For the return to Earth, Wilson robotically installed Leonardo, which was packed with more than 6,000 pounds of hardware, science results and used supplies, inside Discovery's payload bay. The STS-131 mission was accomplished in 15 days, 2 hours, 47 minutes and 10 seconds and traveled 6,232,235 statute miles in 238 orbits.

Personal life

Wilson is a Christian.[15] Her hobbies include skiing and stamp collecting.[16] She is married to Julius McCurdy.[17] [18]

Awards and honors

  • NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2009, 2011)
  • NASA Space Flight Medal (2006, 2007, 2010)
  • Honorary Doctorate of Science from Williams College (2011)
  • Harvard College Women's Professional Achievement Award (2008)
  • Harvard Foundation Scientist of the Year Award (2008)
  • Young Outstanding Texas Exes Award (2005)
  • Johnson Space Center Innovation Group Achievement Award (2013)
  • Johnson Space Center Director Commendation Award (2013)

See also

{{Commons category|Stephanie Wilson}}
  • List of African-American astronauts

References

1. ^Laura Woodmansee, ed. Women Astronauts. (2002). Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books. {{ISBN|978-1-896522-87-6}}. p. 131.
2. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/baytown-news/article/Astronaut-waits-for-chance-to-blast-off-2122025.php|title=Astronaut waits for chance to blast off|work=Houston Chronicle|access-date=2017-06-23}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts131/interview_wilson.html|title=NASA - Preflight Interview: Stephanie D. Wilson, Mission Specialist|website=www.nasa.gov|language=en|access-date=2017-06-24}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/berkshire/obituary.aspx?n=eugene-wilson&pid=184796388|title=Eugene Wilson's Obituary on The Berkshire Eagle|website=The Berkshire Eagle|access-date=2017-06-24}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=20956|title=NASA Astronaut Stephanie D. Wilson:Faith in Abilities|access-date=2017-06-24}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts121/interview_wilson_2006.html|title=NASA - 2006 Preflight Interview: Stephanie Wilson|last=JSC|first=Tuong Tran :|website=www.nasa.gov|language=en|access-date=2017-06-24}}
7. ^http://www.harvard.edu/administration/overseers.php
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://alumni.harvard.edu/stories/astronaut-stephanie-wilson-named-harvard-chief-marshal |title=Astronaut Stephanie Wilson Named Harvard Chief Marshal |publisher=Harvard University |work=Harvard Alumni |date=2013-03-25 |accessdate=2013-06-05}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/wilson.html|title=Astronaut Bio: S. Wilson (07/2014)|website=www.jsc.nasa.gov}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/wilson_stephanie.htm|title=Astronaut Biography: Stephanie Wilson|first=Joachim|last=Becker|website=www.spacefacts.de}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/s_wilson_profile.html|title=NASA - Stephanie Wilson: Becoming an Astronaut Kicking and Swimming|first=Jerry Wright :|last=JSC|website=www.nasa.gov}}
12. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts120/index.html |title=STS-120 |accessdate=October 10, 2007 |publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration |year=2007 |author=NASA}}
13. ^{{cite web |author=NASA |url=http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/192725main_STS-120_Shuttle_Press_Kit.pdf |format=PDF |title=STS-120 Press Kit |publisher=NASA |date=October 2007 |accessdate=2007-10-21}}
14. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts120/news/STS-120-32.html |title=STS-120 Status Report #32 – Final |accessdate=2007-11-07 |publisher=NASA |year=2007 |author=NASA}}
15. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www1.cbn.com/content/stephanie-wilson-god%E2%80%99s-final-frontier|title=Stephanie Wilson: God's Final Frontier|website=CBN.com (beta)|access-date=2017-06-25}}
16. ^{{Cite news|url=http://archive.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/07/06/astronaut_stephanie_wilson_tells_where_shes_been_and_where_she_wants_to_go/?page=2|title=In her orbit|last=Kahn|first=Joseph P.|date=2010-07-06|work=Boston.com|access-date=2018-05-01}}
17. ^[https://cumpleañosdefamosos.com/persona/stephanie-wilson]
18. ^[https://books.google.hu/books?id=z-M-YksXsqcC&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=stephanie+wilson+mccurdy&source=bl&ots=65OxbvXmQc&sig=ACfU3U3W7MxeBLXyLkWodyVaHYnoKU5OcQ&hl=hu&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjhwpiKmqrhAhUJlIsKHewiCjIQ6AEwEXoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=stephanie%20wilson%20mccurdy&f=false]
{{NASA Astronaut Group 16}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Stephanie}}

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