Shannon Walker

Mission Specialist

NASAAmericanACTIVE

FLIGHTS

w/ SPACEX

EVAs

330d 13h 40m

IN SPACE

BIOGRAPHY

Shannon Walker is a NASA astronaut and physicist. She served as a flight controller and ISS program representative before becoming an astronaut. She flew to the ISS aboard Soyuz TMA-19 in 2010 and later as a mission specialist on SpaceX Crew-1, the first operational crewed flight of Crew Dragon.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth

June 4, 1965

Birthplace

Houston, Texas, U.S.

Selection

NASA Group 19 (2004)

EDUCATION

BA Physics, Rice University

MS & PhD Space Physics, Rice University

Wikipedia Profile

MISSION HISTORY

Crew-1

November 16, 2020Flight #107

SpaceX will launch the first operational mission of its Crew Dragon vehicle as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability Program (CCtCap), carrying 3 NASA astronauts and 1 JAXA astronaut to the International Space Station. This mission will be the second crewed flight to launch from the United States since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.

CREW:

FELLOW CREWMATES

Soichi Noguchi

JAXA

Victor J. Glover

NASA

Michael S. Hopkins

NASA

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