Kathryn Thornton

Artist: Brittney Hudson
School: Forest Avenue, Montgomery

"Kathryn Thornton"

1989 November 22: Kathryn Thornton, a native of Montgomery and graduate of Auburn University, becomes the first woman to fly on a military space mission on the Space Shuttle Discovery. Thornton became the second woman to walk in space in 1992. Dr. Thornton retired from NASA in 1996 to join the faculty of the University of Virginia.



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