Kathryn+Hire



By:Sarah B.
Born-August 26th, 1959 Kathryn was the first women to be assigned to a cobat aircrew. Death- currently alive Hometown- Mobile, Alabama

Kathryn graduated from Murphy High in 1977. She got a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and mangement from the U.S.Naval Academy in 1981.She also got a Master of Science degree in space technology from Florida Institute of Technology in 1991.

Special Honors- Natinol Defence Service Medal, Coast Gaurd Special Operations Service Ribbon, Navy and Marine Corps Overseas Service Ribbon, Space Coast Society of Women Enineers Distinguished New Women Engineer for 1993.

When Kathryn was a 2-year-old toddler living in Mobile, someone snapped a picture of her wearing an astronaut helmet. Her choice of toys was a sign of things to come. Thirty-six years later in April Hire, 38, a member of the Murphy Highschool Class of 1977, will be wearing the real headgear as she becomes the 27th American women to go in space. Hire, an astronaut in training at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, is one of seven members of the crew of Space Shuttle Mission STS-90. The mission is scheduled, for now, to begin April 2 with a Cape Canaveral, Fla., liftoff. Her older sister Becky was very happy and proud of her younger sister doing this. She knows how much her sister wanted this. Both sisters attened grammar school at St. Pius X Catholic School in Mobile and maintain a lot of Mobile friendships. According to NASA, the April Mission will explore two of the most exciting frontiers inscience: space and the nervous syestem. " Twenty-six experiments will examine how the brain, spinal cord, eyes, ears and nerves react to weightless pehaps leading to a better under standing of diseases on Earth and the challenges humans face during long space flights," NASA reported.The launching of the space shuttle that will have Mobile native Kathryn Hire on board has been delayed, NASA officals report. "The launch has been rescheduled for April 16th at 1:19 p.m. Central Standard Time," said Audrey Rivers, a NASA spokeswomen at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. The liftoff will take place at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch, which was scheduled for Thursday, was delayed because more processing time was needed for the mission, said Ms. Rivers. Hire will be one of seven astronauts in the crew of Space Shuttle Mission STS-90. The crew will be in orbit 150 nautical miles above the Earth. The flight will last 15 days, 21 hours, and 50 minutes. Hire ,38, and will be the 27th American women to go in space. She will the navigator and the mission specialist on the space trip.

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