Bonnie J. Dunbar
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Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. She flew on five Space Shuttle missions between 1985 and 1998, including two dockings with the Mir space station.
Photos 9
1987 portrait
Preparing to perform bio-medical test on the STS-61-A mission
Wearing an extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) spacesuit, Dunbar prepares to don a helmet and be lowered by a hoist device for a session of underwater training in the Johnson Space Center's weightless environment training facility (WET-F).
Dunbar uses a Doppler to collect medical data from payload specialist Lawrence J. DeLucas during his diagnostic "run" in the Lower Body Negative Pressure device (LBNP). The Doppler is used to pick up high-frequency sound waves from the surface of the heart, thus producing pictures on the monitor of the American Flight Echocardiograph (AFE).
In a cosmonaut space suit in the Training Simulator Facility at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.
In the Mir core module
In keeping with Russian tradition, astronaut Dunbar (left), signs the diary of the late Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut. Her STS-71 crew mates Anatoly Solovyev (center) and Nikolai Budarin, look on.Awards 6
In their orbit 1
Connected to Bonnie 6
Barbara LiskovAlso won Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award
Anita BorgAlso won Women in Technology Hall of Fame
Thomas P. StaffordAlso won United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
James IrwinAlso won United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
Adele GoldbergAlso won Women in Technology Hall of Fame
Mildred DresselhausAlso won Society of Women Engineers Achievement AwardAbout this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
living
Dates
Born 1949 · age 77
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27 languages
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