Tamara E. Jernigan

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Tamara Elizabeth "Tammy" Jernigan
NASA Astronaut
Nationality	American
Status	Retired
Born	May 7, 1959 Chattanooga, Tennessee
Other occupation	Scientist
Space time	63d 01h 24m
Selection	1985 NASA Group
Missions	STS-40, STS-52, STS-67, STS-80, STS-96
Mission insignia

Tamara Elizabeth "Tammy" Jernigan, Ph.D. (born May 7, 1959, in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut and a veteran of five shuttle missions.

Contents 1 Education 2 NASA career 3 Personal 4 Notes

[edit] Education

Jernigan attended Stanford University, where she earned a B.S. degree in physics in 1981, an M.S. in engineering science in 1983. At the University of California, Berkeley, she received an M.A. in astronomy in 1985. In 1988 she was awarded a Ph.D. in space physics and astronomy from Rice University.

[edit] NASA career

She entered the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1986 and retired in 2001. She flew on five Space Shuttle program missions (three on Columbia and one each on Endeavour and Discovery) and logged 1512 hours in space. In her last mission on Discovery in 1999, she performed an extra-vehicular activity for about eight hours.^[1]

[edit] Personal

She is married to astronaut Peter Wisoff.

[edit] Notes