Cady Coleman

Colonel in the United States Air Force a NASA astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions She was selected by NASA in 1992 to become a mission specialist astronaut Coleman logged over 500 hours in space In 1995 she was a member of the Space Transport System STS73 crew on the scientific mission USML1 with experiments including biotechnology combustion science and the physics of fluids During the flight she reported to Houston Mission Control that she had spotted an unidentified flying object In completing her first space flight Coleman orbited the Earth 256 times and traveled over 6 million miles STS93 was Colemans second space flight in 1999 She was mission specialist in charge of placing the Chandra Xray Observatory in orbit using the shuttles robotic arm