Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (BS) Florida Institute of Technology (MS, MS)
Space career
NASA astronaut
Time in space
12d 20h 45m[1]
Selection
NASA Group 16 (1996)
Missions
STS-116
Mission insignia
Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham (born August 3, 1964) is an electrical engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist[2] and is the third African American woman to go into space, after Mae Jemison and Stephanie Wilson.[2]
^"NASA STS-116". NASA.
^ ab"NASA biography of Joan Higginbotham" (PDF). NASA. 2007. Retrieved November 3, 2007.
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