Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman (born December 14, 1960, in Charleston, South Carolina) is a colonel in the United States Air Force and a NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.
In 1979–1980 she was an exchange student at Røyken upper secondary school in Norway. She received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, as a member of the US Air Force ROTC. She was a membe...
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Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman (born December 14, 1960, in Charleston, South Carolina) is a colonel in the United States Air Force and a NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.
In 1979–1980 she was an exchange student at Røyken upper secondary school in Norway. She received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, as a member of the US Air Force ROTC. She was a member of the intercollegiate crew and was a resident of Baker House.
After completing her regular education, she joined the Air Force as a second lieutenant while continuing her graduate work for a Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts. In 1988 she entered active duty at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a research chemist. During her work she also participated at the analysis of the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) experiment launched with STS-41-C and retrieved with STS-32. In 1991 she received her doctorate in polymer science and...
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