Concluding a distinguished career that spanned 38 years, including more than 30 years of federal service and over 21 years as a NASA astronaut
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Shannon Walker
Shannon Walker is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut selected in 2004. She launched on her first mission into space on June 25, 2010, on board Soyuz TMA-19 and spent over 163 days in space.
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science · American scientist and NASA astronaut (born 1965) · astronaut · physicist · astrophysicist · also Shannon Walker, Walker
Born 4 June 1965 · Q240708
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2022· 1 entry
SpaceX's Dragon support vessel GO Navigator was renamed Shannon along with GO Searcher as Megan after SpaceX Crew-2 astronaut, Megan McArthur
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2021· 1 entry
Career landmark: ISS Expedition commander (2021–2021).
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2020· 2 entries
On board SpaceX Crew-1, the first operational flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft
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NASA announced Walker would be returning to space for her second spaceflight on board USCV-1, the first operational flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft and the first operational flight of the Commercial Crew Progra
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2017· 1 entry
Walker served as backup for NASA astronaut Joe Acaba for Expedition 53/54, and she herself was scheduled to launch on board Soyuz MS-12 in early 2019 and serve on Expedition 59/60
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,744 times.
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2015· 2 entries
Published “Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>” in Journal of Statistical Software — cited 76,397 times.
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Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,857 times.
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2011· 1 entry
NASA announced that Walker would command the NEEMO 15 undersea exploration mission aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory from October 17–30, 2011
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2010· 5 entries
Walker, Wheelock and Yurchikin departed the ISS on board Soyuz TMA-19 and began their return home
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Walker and her two crewmates became part of Expedition 25
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On board Soyuz TMA-19 and spent over 163 days in space
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Won NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2010).
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Walker launched on board Soyuz TMA-19, alongside fellow NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock and Roscosmos cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin
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2009· 2 entries
Published “Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R” in Statistics for Biology and Health — cited 12,827 times.
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Published “A safe operating space for humanity” in Nature — cited 9,766 times.
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2000· 1 entry
And became the technical lead for the ISS MER and the Deputy Manager of the On-Orbit Engineering Office
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1999· 1 entry
Walker moved to Moscow to work with the Russian Space Agency and its contractors in avionics integration and integrated problem solving for the ISS
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1998· 1 entry
Joined the ISS Mission Evaluation Room (MER) as a manager for coordinating on-orbit problem resolution for the ISS
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1995· 1 entry
Joined the NASA civil service and began working in the International Space Station (ISS) Program at the Johnson Space Center
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1965· 1 entry
Born 1965-06-04.
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