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...eyes will be on the sky Saturday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center when rookie astronaut Stephanie D. Wilson ’88, a former engineering concentrator from Currier House, embarks on her inaugural mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery...
Wilson, who will be the second African-American woman in space, will serve as mission specialist to the seven-person Discovery crew. The upcoming mission will be NASA’s second shuttle flight since losing the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven...
...tribute to her alma mater, Wilson plans to carry a DEAS flag with her into space and deliver it back to Harvard after the mission, fellow NASA Astronaut Sandra H. Magnus said...
Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti said Wilson’s upcoming mission “brings great credit” to DEAS...
Magnus, who has pulled night shifts and worked in Mission Control with Wilson, said that Wilson’s upcoming task is a “very large logistics problem” that requires a great deal of practice and attention to detail. But she believes Wilson is up for the challenge...