Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan (born October 3, 1951) is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer. She was a crew member on three Space Shuttle missions.

Mar 6, 2025 · Dr. Kathryn Sullivan joined NASA as part of the barrier-breaking astronaut class of 1978. As one of the first six women chosen for the “Thirty-Five New Guys,” Sullivan became the first …

Kathryn Sullivan (b. 1951) is an American oceanographer and astronaut who became the first American woman to walk in space (1984) and to make a descent to the Challenger Deep (2020). She also …

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Sullivan was one of the six women (in a class of 35) selected in 1978 to be Space Shuttle astronauts, and she was the third woman tapped to fly. Kathy Sullivan, the first U.S. woman to do an EVA, and …

Feb 25, 2022 · American geologist, oceanographer and former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer Kathy Sullivan holds the records for being the first American woman to walk in space and the first …

Floating effortlessly in weightlessness, Kathryn Sullivan glided into Challenger’s open cargo bay in 1984 as the first American woman to walk in space. On two later missions, she helped launch the Hubble …

Dr. Sullivan was one of the first six women to join NASA’s astronaut corps in 1978 and holds the distinction of being the first American woman to walk in space.

She is a private pilot, rated in powered and glider aircraft. The first American woman to walk in space, Dr. Sullivan is a veteran of three shuttle missions and a 2004 inductee to the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

On October 11, 1984, a female American astronaut stepped outside her spacecraft for the first time. Kathryn D. “Kathy” Sullivan had work to do in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Challenger, a …