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Key facts
- Education
- Missouri University of Science and Technology ( BS ), Georgia Institute of Technology ( MS , PhD )
- Time in space
- 157d 8h 42m
- Selection
- NASA Group 16 (1996)
- Missions
- STS-112 , STS-126 / 119 ( Expedition 18 ), STS-135
- Fields
- Materials science
- Thesis
- An Investigation of the Relationship between the Thermochemistry and Emission Behavior of Thermionic Cathodes Based on the BaO-Sc₂O₃-WO₃ Ternary System (1996)
- Doctoral advisor
- Norman Hill
- Born
- ( 1964-10-30 ) October 30, 1964 (age 61) , Belleville, Illinois , U.S.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 16
- Given name
- Sandra
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Belleville
- Occupation
- engineer
- Employer
- NASA
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Sandra Magnus 2011.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Sandra Hall Magnus (born October 30, 1964) is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew to space three times, as mission specialist on STS-112, as ISS crewmember during Expedition 18 and as mission specialist on STS-135. She is also a licensed amateur radio operator with the call sign KE5FYE. From 2012 until 2018 Magnus was the executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sandra Magnus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.