Catherine Coleman

**Catherine Grace** " **Cady** " **Coleman** (an haife ta a ranar 14 ga Disamba, 1960) ƙwararriyar masaniyar sinadarai ce ta Amurka, injiniya, tsohon kanar janar na rundunar sojin sama ta Amurka, kuma ɗan sama jannatin NASA mai ritaya.  Ta kasance ƙwararriya a ayyukan jiragen sama guda biyu na sararin samaniya, kuma ta bar Tashar Sararin Samaniya ta Duniya a ranar 23 ga Mayu, 2011, a matsayin ma'aikaciyar ma'aikatan Expedition 27 bayan ta yi kwanaki 159 a sararin samaniya.

## Ilimi
Coleman ta kammala karatunta daga Makarantar Sakandare ta Wilbert Tucker Woodson, Fairfax, Virginia, a shekarar 1978.  A tsakanin 1978 zuwa 1979, ta kasance ɗalibar musayar ɗalibai a Makarantar Sakandare ta Røyken da ke Norway tare da Shirye-shiryen Al'adu na AFS . Ta sami digirin BS a fannin sinadarai daga Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts (MIT) a shekarar 1983 kuma an ba ta aikin digiri a Kwalejin Horar da Jami'an Tsaron Sojojin Sama (ROTC).,  sannan ta sami digirin Ph.D. a fannin kimiyyar polymer da injiniya daga Jami'ar Massachusetts Amherst a shekarar 1991.   Farfesa Thomas J. McCarthy ya ba ta shawara kan digirin digirgir.   A matsayinta na ɗalibi mai digiri na farko, ta kasance memba na ƙungiyar kwalejoji kuma mazaunin Baker House ne. 

## Aikin soja
Coleman ta ci gaba da karatun digirin digirgir a Jami'ar Massachusetts Amherst a matsayin laftanar ta biyu . A shekarar 1988, ta fara aiki a sansanin sojin sama na Wright-Patterson a matsayin mai bincike kan sinadarai. A lokacin aikinta, ta shiga aikin mai ba da shawara kan nazarin saman kasa a gwajin NASA Long Duration Exposure Facility . A shekarar 1991, ta sami digirin digirgir a fannin kimiyyar polymer da injiniyanci .  Ta yi ritaya daga rundunar sojin sama a watan Nuwamba 2009 a matsayin kanar . 

## Aikin NASA

NASA ta zaɓe Coleman a shekarar 1992 don shiga Rundunar 'Yan Samari ta NASA . A shekarar 1995, ta kasance memba na ma'aikatan STS-73 a cikin aikin kimiyya na USML-2 tare da gwaje-gwajen da suka haɗa da fasahar kere-kere, kimiyyar konewa, da kimiyyar ruwa . STS-93 shine jirgin sama na biyu na Coleman a sararin samaniya a shekarar 1999. Ta kasance ƙwararriyar mai aikin a cikin aikin da ke kula da tura Chandra X-ray Observatory da Inertial Upper Stage daga tashar ɗaukar kaya ta jirgin. 

Coleman ta yi aiki a matsayin Babban Jami'in Robotics na Ofishin 'Yan Samari, wanda ya haɗa da ayyukan hannu na robotic da kuma horo ga dukkan ayyukan Jiragen Sama da Tashar Sararin Samaniya ta Duniya .  A watan Oktoba na 2004, Coleman ya yi aiki a matsayin mai kula da ruwa a lokacin aikin NEEMO 7 a cikin dakin gwaje-gwaje na karkashin ruwa na Aquarius, yana zaune da aiki a karkashin ruwa na tsawon kwanaki goma sha ɗaya.  

An naɗa Coleman a matsayin ma'aikaciyar ma'aikatan jirgin ruwan Amurka mai aiki a Expeditions 19, 20 da 21 kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin ma'aikaciyar ma'aikatan jirgin ruwan Expeditions 24 da 25 a matsayin wani ɓangare na horonta na Expedition 26 .

Coleman ta harba jirgin a ranar 15 ga Disamba, 2010 (16 ga Disamba, 2010 lokacin Baikonur ), a cikin jirgin Soyuz TMA-20 don shiga aikin Expedition 26 a cikin Tashar Sararin Samaniya ta Duniya . [1] Ta yi ritaya daga NASA a ranar 1 ga Disamba, 2016.

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