Heidemarie Stefanyshyn

ABOUT HEIDEMARIE STEFANYSHYN

Retired astronaut and experienced salvage officer who has flown on two Space Shuttle missions.

She earned her Master's of Science in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

On her first Space Shuttle mission, she became the 8th woman to conduct a spacewalk.

She married Glenn A. Piper and they had one son.

She is a female astronaut like Mae Jemison .