- Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan (born October 3, 1951) is an American geologist and a former NASA astronaut. A crew member on three Space Shuttle missions, she was the first American woman to walk in space on October 11, 1984. On June 7, 2020, she became the first woman to dive to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth's oceans. She was Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 6, 2014. Sullivan's tenure ended on January 20, 2017 with the swearing in of President Donald Trump. Following completion of her service at NOAA, she was designated as the 2017 Charles A. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, and has also served as a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- She was the first woman to walk in space.
- She received a degree in Earth sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a doctorate in geology from Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia).
- In 2020, she became the first woman to travel almost seven miles to the lowest known point in the ocean, within the Mariana Trench in the Pacific.
- After leaving Nasa in 1993, she served as chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
- She is a private pilot, rated in powered and glider aircraft.
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