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...Wilson joined NASA in 1996 and flew her first mission a decade later. She is the second African-American woman to ever fly in space...
...Wilson received her undergraduate degree in engineering science from Harvard and a masters degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas...
...Wilson, an astronaut for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and a missions specialist on this flight, will be working with other crew members at the International Space Station, according to a NASA press release. The mission will last for 13 days...
...Wilson started her term on the Board of Overseers, Harvard’s second-highest governing body, in 2007. She has also returned to Harvard several times to lecture about her experiences as an astronaut, according to John W. Hutchinson, who taught her as an undergraduate in Engineering Sciences 120: “Introduction to the Mechanics of Solids...
During her undergraduate years, Wilson was “very calm and collected,” according to Hutchinson, who also served as her adviser. “She was very confident of herself in a very relaxed manner...