“I was just delighted to see women come after me and do, you know, much more elaborate, much more complicated, much more demanding spacewalks.”
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Kathryn D. Sullivan
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer. She was a crew member on three Space Shuttle missions.
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Born 3 October 1951 · Q464166
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (2023).
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Leif Erikson Award (2022).
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2020· 5 entries
Awarded BBC 100 Women (2020).
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Won Nevada Medal (2020).
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Sullivan became the first woman to dive into the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of Earth's oceans
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The American Association of Geographers named her Honorary Geographer
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Published “The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans” in Nature — cited 9,225 times.
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2019· 1 entry
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Kathryn Sullivan says impossible to find oil in northern Nigeria” False.
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2017· 1 entry
After which she was designated as the 2017 Charles A
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Rachel Carson Award (2016).
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2014· 2 entries
Sullivan was named in the Time 100 list, an annual list of the world's most influential people
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Career landmark: Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (2014–2017).
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2013· 3 entries
And she was confirmed by the Senate on March 6, 2014
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Following the resignation of Jane Lubchenco
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In conjunction with her presentation of a commencement address, and from Brown University in May 2015, for her "abundant contributions to science, education and the public good, and her ongoing commitment to improving th
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2011· 1 entry
Sullivan was confirmed by unanimous consent of the Senate and appointed by President Obama to serve as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction and Deputy Administrator for the Nationa
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2009· 1 entry
Sullivan was elected to a three-year term as the chair of the Section on General Interest in Science and Engineering for the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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2004· 3 entries
Awarded Women in Space Science Award (2004).
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Awarded United States Astronaut Hall of Fame (2004).
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Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Ohio Women's Hall of Fame (2002).
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1993· 2 entries
Having flown on three Space Shuttle missions and logged 532 hours in space
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Published “The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: A Quality-of-Life Instrument for Use in International Clinical Trials in Oncology” in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute — cited 13,342 times.
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1991· 2 entries
Four days before the start of Operation Desert Storm, and stayed for thirty days to augment the regular component responsible for the Western Pacific to free it to concentrate on the Persian Gulf
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The Gold Medal of the Society of Woman Geographers in 1993, the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1994, and the Adler Planetarium Women in Space Science Award in 2004
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1988· 1 entry
Where she met Andreas Rechnitzer, a US Navy oceanographer, and she started thinking about joining the US Naval Reserve (USNR) as an oceanography officer
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded International Space Hall of Fame (1985).
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1984· 2 entries
NASA management decided this would be too dangerous and too costly, and that the HST would instead be maintained in-orbit by periodic servicing missions for up to fifteen years
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1990 and 1992; the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1988 and 1991, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal in 1992, and a Certificate of Appreciation in 1996
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1981· 1 entry
Earle and Sullivan had been part of the first group of women admitted to the Explorers Club
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1979· 3 entries
NASA announced that the 35 astronaut candidates had completed their training and evaluation, and were now officially astronauts, qualified for selection on space flight crews
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Set an unofficial sustained American aviation altitude record for women
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Set an unofficial sustained American aviation altitude record for women of 19,000 metres (63,000 ft) during a four-hour flight in a NASA WB-57F reconnaissance aircraft
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1978· 2 entries
And went on to fly three shuttle missions
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Studied at Dalhousie University, doctorate (1978).
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1976· 1 entry
Her brother Grant, an aerospace engineer and corporate jet pilot, told her that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had issued a call for applications for a new group of astronauts
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1973· 1 entry
And a Doctor of Philosophy in geology from Dalhousie University and the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1978, writing her doctoral thesis on The structure and evolution of the Newfoundland Ba
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1967· 1 entry
And he counseled her to wait for NASA to call
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1958· 2 entries
To make way for Van Nuys Airport, and neither woman could recall meeting the other
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The family moved to the San Fernando Valley in California, where her father worked in the aerospace industry for Marquardt Corporation
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1951· 2 entries
Born 1951-10-03.
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The daughter of Donald Paul Sullivan and his wife Barbara, née Kelly
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