Astronaut

1989 became the first woman to fly on a space shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster; 1991 took a role at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland working on a project called SeaWiFS, an ocean-monitoring sensor that measured global vegetation; 1971-1980 while working at Utah Water Research Lab her research included work on the productivity of the algal component of cold desert soil crusts in the Great Basin Desert south of Snowville, Utah; algal removal with intermittent sand filtration and prediction of minimum river flow necessary to maintain certain game fish and the effects of increased salinity and oil shale leachates on freshwater phytoplankton productivity; worked on the deployment of the Magellan Venus exploration spacecraft, the first planetary probe to be deployed from a space shuttle;

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Category:
Environmental Engineer

Completion Status:
yes

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