Catherine Coleman
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Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman （born December 14, 1960） is an American chemist, a former United States Air Force colonel, and a retired NASA astronaut.
She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew member of Expedition 27 after logging 159 days in space.
Coleman graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School, Fairfax, Virginia, in 1978.
In 1978–1979, she was an exchange student at Røyken Upper Secondary School in Norway with the AFS Intercultural Programs.
She received a B.S. degree in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology （MIT） in 1983 and was commissioned as graduate of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps （Air Force ROTC）.
, then received a Ph.
D. degree in polymer science and engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1991.
She was advised by Professor Thomas J. McCarthy on her doctorate.
As an undergraduate, she was a member of the intercollegiate rowing crew and was a resident of Baker House.
Coleman continued to pursue her PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a Second lieutenant.
In 1988, she entered active duty at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a research chemist.
During her work, she participated as a surface analysis consultant on the NASA Long Duration Exposure Facility experiment.
In 1991, she received her doctorate in polymer science and engineering.
She retired from the Air Force in November 2009 as a colonel.
Coleman in the ISS in 2011 Coleman and Valentina Tereshkova at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in December 2010 Coleman was selected by NASA in 1992 ...