Stephanie Wilson

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Stephanie Diana Wilson is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She flew to space onboard three Space Shuttle missions and is the second African American woman to go into space after Mae Jemison. As of 2025, her 43 days in space are the second most of any female African American astronaut, having been surpassed by Jessica Watkins in 2022.

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Stephanie Diana Wilson
engineer, astronaut, 

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  • SpaceX Crew-9
    NASA Commercial Crew Program mission to the International Space Station
  • STS-120
    human spaceflight
  • STS-121
    human spaceflight
  • STS-131
    human spaceflight
SpaceX crew 9 crew portraitSpaceX crew 9 crew portrait
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President George W. Bush Greets Shuttle Astronauts from Right, Peggy Whitson, Stephanie Wilson, and John Grunsfeld, and Ellen Ochoa at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.CPresident George W. Bush Greets Shuttle Astronauts from Right, Peggy Whitson, Stephanie Wilson, and John Grunsfeld, and Ellen Ochoa at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C
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    TypeSubtypeDateDescriptionNotesSource
    classorbitSpaceX Crew-9Aleksandr Gorbunov, Barry E. Wilmore, Nick Hague, Stephanie Wilson, Sunita Williams, human spaceflight,Wikidata
    classorbitSTS-120Clayton Anderson, Daniel M. Tani, Douglas H. Wheelock, George D. Zamka, Pamela Melroy, Paolo Nespoli, Scott E. Parazynski, Stephanie Wilson, human spaceflight,Wikidata
    classorbitSTS-121Lisa Nowak, Mark Kelly, Michael E. Fossum, Piers Sellers, Stephanie Wilson, Steven Lindsey, Thomas Reiter, human spaceflight,Wikidata
    classorbitSTS-131Alan G. Poindexter, Clayton Anderson, Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger, James Dutton, Naoko Yamazaki, Richard Mastracchio, Stephanie Wilson, human spaceflight,Wikidata
    commonsimageSpaceX crew 9 crew portrait Commons
    commonsimageStephanie D. Wilson Commons
    commonsimageCrew arrives at Kennedy Commons
    commonsimageStephanie D. Wilson Commons
    commonsimageSts131 crewposter Commons
    commonsimagePresident George W. Bush Greets Shuttle Astronauts from Right, Peggy Whitson, Stephanie Wilson, and John Grunsfeld, and Ellen Ochoa at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C Commons
    commonsimageSTS-121 crew Commons
    commonsimageS131E008281 - STS-131 - Crew Meal in Node 1 Unity - DPLA - 6b88e19bc68543b6cd6ed32d875ef34e Commons
    commonsimageS131E010052 - STS-131 - Group Photo in Cupola - DPLA - 5f6f5c0519ab8c87280ab6ce4a6fd0c2 Commons
    commonsimageS121E06129 - STS-121 - Group shot of Nowak,Fossum and Wilson on the MDK during STS-121 - Expedition 13 joint operations - DPLA - d0688df86444d3d1e1e4821a5a1a8462 Commons