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Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham (Chicago, Estados Unidos, 3 de agosto de 1964) es una astronauta e ingeniera estadounidense. Ha volado a bordo del Discovery en la misión STS-116 como especialista de misión. Es la tercera mujer afroamericana en ir al espacio, después de Mae Jemison y Stephanie Wilson.
Joan Higginbotham is an electrical engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 and is the third African American woman to go into space.
Joan Higginbotham is an electrical engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist and is the third African American woman to go into space.
Learn about Joan Higginbotham's personal and professional background, education, awards, and space missions. She was the first African American woman to serve as a CAPCOM and to operate the Space Station Remote Manipulator System.
Learn about Joan Higginbotham's career journey at NASA, from electrical engineer to orbiter project engineer to astronaut. She participated in 53 space shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission in 2006.
Joan Higginbotham never dreamed of going into space.“I wanted to be an electrical engineer," Higginbotham said.Higginbotham thought a career at IBM would be ...
Watch Joan Higginbotham share her journey to become a NASA astronaut and her space missions in this video. Learn about her background, challenges and achievements in her own words.
