Peggy Whitson

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Peggy Annette Whitson is an American biochemistry researcher, and astronaut working for Axiom Space. She retired from NASA in 2018, after serving as Chief Astronaut. Over all her missions, Whitson has accumulated a total of 695 days in space, more than any other American or woman.

1960  WikimediaWikidata
Peggy A. Whitson; Peggy Annette Whitson
astronaut, biochemist, 

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  • Axiom Mission 2
    private crewed spaceflight to the International Space Station in 2023
  • Axiom Mission 4
    private crewed spaceflight to the International Space Station in 2025
  • Soyuz MS-03
    Russian crewed flight to the ISS
  • Soyuz MS-04
    Russian crewed flight to the ISS
  • Soyuz TMA-11
    soyuz mission which nearly failed reentry
  • STS-111
    human spaceflight
  • STS-113
    human spaceflight
  • Expedition 5
    expedition to the International Space Station
  • Expedition 16
    expedition to the International Space Station
  • Expedition 50
    ISS mission
  • Expedition 51
    ISS expedition
  • Expedition 52
    long-duration mission to the International Space Station
1960-02-09T00:00:00Z
1960-02-09T00:00:00Z
1960 Peggy Whitson
2002-06-07T00:00:00Z
2002-12-02T00:00:00Z
2007-10-10T00:00:00Z
2008-04-19T00:00:00Z
2007 — 2008 Expedition 16
2016-10-28T00:00:00Z
2017-04-09T00:00:00Z
2016 — 2017 Expedition 50
2017-04-10T00:00:00Z
2017-06-02T00:00:00Z
2017-06-02T00:00:00Z
2017-09-02T00:00:00Z
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Astronauts Peggy Whitson, Stephanie Wilson and Daniel Tan are pictured in the Unity nodeAstronauts Peggy Whitson, Stephanie Wilson and Daniel Tan are pictured in the Unity node
Astronauts Pam Melroy (left), STS-120 commander; Peggy Whitson (center), Expedition 16 commander; and Stephanie Wilson, STS-120 mission specialist, pose for a photo in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space StationAstronauts Pam Melroy (left), STS-120 commander; Peggy Whitson (center), Expedition 16 commander; and Stephanie Wilson, STS-120 mission specialist, pose for a photo in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station
    TypeSubtypeDateDescriptionNotesSource
    classorbitAxiom Mission 2Ali AlQarni, John Shoffner, Peggy Whitson, Rayyanah Barnawi, human spaceflight, private spaceflight,Wikidata
    classorbitAxiom Mission 4Peggy Whitson, Shubhanshu Shukla, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, Tibor Kapu, human spaceflight, private spaceflight,Wikidata
    classorbitSoyuz MS-03Oleg Novitskiy, Peggy Whitson, Soyuz MS, Thomas Pesquet, human spaceflight,Wikidata
    classorbitSoyuz MS-04Fyodor Yurchikhin, Jack D. Fischer, Peggy Whitson, Soyuz MS, human spaceflight,Wikidata
    classorbitSoyuz TMA-11Peggy Whitson, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Soyuz-TMA, Yi So-Yeon, Yuri Malenchenko, human spaceflight,Wikidata
    classorbitSTS-111Carl E. Walz, Daniel W. Bursch, Franklin Chang-Díaz, Kenneth Cockrell, Paul Lockhart, Peggy Whitson, Philippe Perrin, Sergei Treshchov, Valery Korzun, Yury Onufriyenko, human spaceflight,Wikidata
    classorbitSTS-113Donald Pettit, Jim Wetherbee, John Herrington, Ken Bowersox, Michael López-Alegría, Nikolai Budarin, Paul Lockhart, Peggy Whitson, Sergei Treshchov, Valery Korzun, human spaceflight,Wikidata
    classspaceflight2002Expedition 5Peggy Whitson, Sergei Treshchov, Valery Korzun, expedition to the International Space Station,Wikidata
    classspaceflight2007Expedition 16Clayton Anderson, Daniel M. Tani, Garrett Reisman, Léopold Eyharts, Peggy Whitson, Yuri Malenchenko, expedition to the International Space Station,Wikidata
    classspaceflight2016Expedition 50Andrey Borisenko, Oleg Novitskiy, Peggy Whitson, Sergey Ryzhikov, Shane Kimbrough, Thomas Pesquet, expedition to the International Space Station,Wikidata
    classspaceflight2017Expedition 51Fyodor Yurchikhin, Jack D. Fischer, Oleg Novitskiy, Peggy Whitson, Thomas Pesquet, expedition to the International Space Station,Wikidata
    classspaceflight2017Expedition 52Fyodor Yurchikhin, Jack D. Fischer, Paolo Nespoli, Peggy Whitson, Randolph Bresnik, Sergey Ryazansky, expedition to the International Space Station,Wikidata
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    commonsimageAstronaut Peggy Whitson Commons
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    commonsimagePeggy Whitson Commons
    commonsimageExpedition 16 Commons
    commonsimagePeggy Whitson (29035156643) Commons
    commonsimageAstronauts Peggy Whitson, Stephanie Wilson and Daniel Tan are pictured in the Unity node Commons
    commonsimageAstronauts Pam Melroy (left), STS-120 commander; Peggy Whitson (center), Expedition 16 commander; and Stephanie Wilson, STS-120 mission specialist, pose for a photo in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station Commons