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Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman is an American chemist, engineer, former United States Air Force colonel, and retired NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew member of Expedition 27 after logging 159 days in space.
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Born 14 December 1960 · Q7468
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The Irish postal service An Post issued a set of commemorative stamps for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landings, Catherine Coleman is featured alongside fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and E
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Gave a graduation address to Carter Lynch, the sole graduate of Cuttyhunk Elementary School, on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts
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Published “Electronics and optoelectronics of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides” in Nature Nanotechnology — cited 15,561 times.
As a crew member of Expedition 27 after logging 159 days in space
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Played a duet with Ian Anderson to honour Yuri Gagarin's 50th anniversary of his flight
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Played one of the instruments live from orbit on National Public Radio
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(December 16, 2010 Baikonur time), aboard Soyuz TMA-20 to join the Expedition 26 mission aboard the International Space Station
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Was a member of the STS-73 crew on the scientific mission USML-2 with experiments including biotechnology, combustion science, and the physics of fluids
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Received her doctorate in polymer science and engineering
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Published “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital” in American Journal of Sociology — cited 20,933 times.
Entered active duty at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a research chemist
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And was commissioned as graduate of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (Air Force ROTC)
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Born 1960-12-14.
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