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Topic: Most senior astronaut(s) still with NASA
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ambrous
Member Posts: 13
From: indianapolis, in
Registered: Feb 2008
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posted 11-29-2010 10:36 AM
  
With the somewhat recent retirement of the last of the Apollo era astronauts, I was thinking, as of now, who is the most senior astronaut? That could have several meanings... How about: Longest still with NASA? Longest still on active flight status? |
OV-105
Member Posts: 816
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 11-29-2010 11:18 AM
I would guess it would Anna Fisher and Shannon Lucid. I don't think we will them fly again but they are on active flight status. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 11-29-2010 12:02 PM
Steve Nagel and Michael Coats are still with NASA, also group 8. |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 11-29-2010 12:50 PM
Lucid and Nagel share the longest continuous employ by NASA. Almost 33 years and counting. (Coats and Fisher left and came back).Astronaut-candidate Kate Rubins was born the same year they joined NASA. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 11-29-2010 05:10 PM
Maybe a long-duration flight by Anna Fisher on the ISS? She would certainly be the oldest female space traveller, and could provide a baseline for research like that made with the flight of John Glenn on the shuttle in 1998. Several of the 'Mercury 13', the unchosen female astronaut-trainees from 1959-60, offered to go up following Glenn's second spaceflight. |
Greggy_D
Member Posts: 977
From: Michigan
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 11-29-2010 06:05 PM
I still think it is a darn shame that Anna did not fly again. I wonder if that was her choice or if it was NASA's. |
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