Stephanie Wilson | |
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.jpg) Wilson in 2019 | |
| Born | Stephanie Diana Wilson September 27, 1966 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BS) University of Texas, Austin (MS) |
| Space career | |
| NASA astronaut | |
Time in space | 42d 23h 46m |
| Selection | NASA Group 16 (1996) |
| Missions | STS-121 STS-120 STS-131 |
Mission insignia |    |
Stephanie Diana Wilson (born September 27, 1966)[1] is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She flew to space onboard three Space Shuttle missions, and is the second African American woman to go into space, after Mae Jemison. As of 2022,[update] her 42 days in space are the second most of any female African American astronaut, having been surpassed by Jessica Watkins in 2022.
- ^ Laura Woodmansee, ed. Women Astronauts. (2002). Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books. ISBN 978-1-896522-87-6. p. 131.