Tamara E. Jernigan

Infobox Astronaut
name =Tamara Elizabeth "Tammy" Jernigan


type =NASA Astronaut
status =Retired
nationality =American
date_birth =May 7, 1959
place_birth =Chattanooga, Tennessee
occupation =Scientist
selection =1985 NASA Group
time =63d 01h 24m
mission =STS-40, STS-52, STS-67, STS-80, STS-96
insignia =|

Tamara Elizabeth "Tammy" Jernigan, Ph.D. (born May 7, 1959, in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut and a veteran of five shuttle missions.

Education

Jenigan attended Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe Springs, CA. She graduated in 1977. Jernigan attended Stanford University, where she earned a B.S. degree in physics in 1981, an M.S. in engineering science in 1983. At the University of California, Berkeley, she received an M.A. in astronomy in 1985. In 1988 she was awarded a Ph.D. in space physics and astronomy from Rice University.

NASA career

She entered the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1986 and retired in 2001. She flew on five Space Shuttle program missions (three on "Columbia" and one each on "Endeavour" and "Discovery") and logged 1512 hours in space. In her last mission on "Discovery" in 1999, she performed an extra-vehicular activity for about eight hours. [ [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/jernigan.html NASA official biography] ]

Personal

She is married to astronaut Peter Wisoff.

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