Wybitna weteranka U.S. Navy.Honoring Veterans: Navy Veteran Kathryn HireMarch 15, 2024
(...) Hire’s service began in the U.S. Navy when she was commissioned as a Naval Officer in 1981; in 1982, she earned her Naval Flight Officer Wings. Over her career, she accumulated 3,400 hours in flight, some of which include her three year experience in teaching student Naval Flight Officers. Hire’s naval career also included worldwide airborne oceanographic research missions where she flew to 25 different countries.
Notably, Hire was the first woman in the U.S. military to be assigned to a combat aircrew when she served as part of Atlantic and Caribbean operations aboard the P-3 maritime patrol aircraft in May 1993. Prior to that, in January 1989, Hire left active duty and joined the Naval Reserve as a Naval Reserve officer. In the same year, she started a new career as an engineer at the Kennedy Space Center. (...)
https://news.va.gov/129527/honoring-veterans-navy-veteran-kathryn-hire/Announcing Astronauts Bonnie Dunbar, Kathryn “Kay” Hire, and Nancy Currie-Gregg in Conversation with Andrew Aldrin, Mentors, and SessionsBy Leslie Kelley 12/4/2019
(...) Kathryn "Kay" Hire – Commissioned as a Naval Officer in 1981, Hire earned her Naval Flight Officer Wings in 1982. She flew worldwide oceanographic research missions to 25 countries aboard specially configured P-3 Orion aircraft with Oceanographic Development Squadron Eight (VXN-8). She later taught airborne navigation for three years to over 600 student naval flight officers. (...)
https://www.sxswedu.com/news/2019/announcing-astronauts-bonnie-dunbar-kathryn-kay-hire-and-nancy-currie-gregg-in-conversation-with-andrew-aldrin/Endeavour’s crew takes on ‘bittersweet’ missionNASA begins its final year of shuttle flights with the launch of six astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour, carrying the last major pieces of the International Space Station.Feb. 6, 2010, 11:54 PM GMT+1 / Source: msnbc.com staff and news service reports
Endeavour's crew gets a photo opportunity at the Kennedy Space Center launch pad. From left are commander George Zamka; pilot Terry Virts; and mission specialists Kathryn Hire, Stephen Robinson, Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken.NASA(...) Kay Hire used to launch space shuttles. Now she flies in them.
The 50-year-old Navy Reserve captain is making her second spaceflight — and her first in 12 years.
She grew up in Mobile, Ala., the daughter of a land surveyor. She’d use her father’s surveying equipment to look at craters on the moon. “I was just totally fascinated” with space, she said.
Hire was commissioned as a Naval officer in 1981 and, 12 years later, became the first woman in the U.S. military to be assigned to a combat air crew. She took part in Atlantic and Caribbean patrol operations.
She began working at Kennedy Space Center in 1989 as an engineer and became an astronaut in 1995. She rocketed into orbit in 1998, then was recalled to active naval duty.
Hire will help operate the shuttle robot arm and raise the window shutters of the new space station lookout, once it’s in the proper place. The domed observation deck will offer panoramic views of Earth and outer space.
“Honestly, I’m not really hung up on being the first one” to look out the windows, she said, “just so long as I get a view at some point.” (...)
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna35273635Kay Hire Speaks with Navy Midshipmen
Astronaut, Navy captain, and U.S. Naval Academy graduate Kathryn "Kay" Hire (left), who presently works in the director's office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, speaks with midshipmen from the Naval Academy following the "Hubble Space Telescope: 25 Years of Servicing" seminar at Goddard on December 7, 2018.
Credit: NASA / W. Hrybyk Uploaded on December 13, 2018 Taken on December 7, 2018
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahubble/45582088704NASA astronaut Kathryn Hire, STS-130 mission specialist, uses a still camera at a window on the aft flight deck of space shuttle Endeavour while docked with the ISS, NIKON Cámara
Uploaded on February 16, 2010 Taken on February 15, 2010
https://www.flickr.com/photos/astronomicalfamily/4363922076/Association of Space Explorers @ASE_Astronauts 8:01 PM · Aug 26, 2025
#HappyBirthday to ASE Life Member Kathryn Hire, who flew to space twice in 1998 and 2010 (STS-90 and STS-130), including as part of a trip to the @Space_Station!
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Wątek: KP 'Kay' Hire - 26.08.1959 (Przeczytany 95 razy)