Tuesday, 5 September 2017

Who is Peggy Whitson?

Who is Peggy Whitson?

Options


1) astronaut

2)mathematician

3)physicist

4)archaeologist

answer

 1) astronaut


Other details


Peggy Annette Whitson   is an American biochemistry researcher, NASA astronaut,  and former NASA Chief Astronaut.

Her first space mission was in 2002, with an extended stay aboard the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 5.

 Her second mission launched October 10, 2007, as the first woman commander of the ISS with Expedition 16.

She was currently in space on her third long-duration space flight and was the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 51, before handing over command to Fyodor Yurchikhin on June 1, 2017.