[Letter] : 1979 Nov. 19, Houston, Texas, [to] Dennis Spalding, Olympia, Washington.

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[Letter] : 1979 Nov. 19, Houston, Texas, [to] Dennis Spalding, Olympia, Washington.

NASA astronaut Sullivan replies to questions concerning space shuttle navigation, specifically inertial measurement units, re-entry procedures, etc.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8355283

Haverford College Library

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Spalding, Dennis.

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Sullivan, Kathryn D. (Kathryn Dwyer), 1951-

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Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan, PhD (b. Oct. 3, 1951, Patterson, NJ) is a geologist, former NASA astronaut, and oceanographer who was the first American woman to walk in space, the first woman to dive to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (the deepest part of the Earth’s oceans), and is the first and only person to do both. She also served as an astronaut on the Discovery and Atlantis shuttles. In total, Sullivan flew on three shuttle missions, including the mission that deployed the Hubble Spac...