Thursday May 7, 1959

Birth of Tamara Jernigan

Is an American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut.

During her career she completed five Space Shuttle program missions (three on Columbia and one each on Endeavour and Discovery), logging over 1512 hours in space.

Jernigan left NASA in 2001, and is Deputy Principal Associate Director in the Weapons and Complex Integration (WCI) organization at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

65 years ago