Nancy Currie
Nancy Jane Currie-Gregg born December 29, 1958 in Wilmington, Delaware, is an engineer, United States Army officer and a NASA astronaut.[3] Currie-Gregg has served in the United States Army for over 22 years and holds the rank of colonel. With NASA, she has participated in four space shuttle missions: STS-57, STS-70, STS-88, and STS109, accruing 1,000 hours in space. She currently holds an appointment as an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University. She graduated from Troy High School in Troy, Ohio, in 1977, then received a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, in biological science from Ohio State University in 1980, a Master of Science degree in safety engineering from the University of Southern California in 1985, and a Doctorate in industrial engineering from the University of Houston in 1997. Currie-Gregg was assigned to NASA Johnson Space Center in September 1987 as a flight simulation engineer on the Shuttle Training Aircraft, a complex airborne simulator which models flight characteristics of the Shuttle orbiter. An astronaut since 1990, she has been involved in robotic hardware and procedure development for the shuttle and space station and has worked as a spacecraft communicator. Dr. Currie-Gregg has also served as the chief of the Astronaut Office Robotics and Payloads-Habitability branches and the Habitability and Human Factors Office in JSC?s Space and Life Sciences Directorate. She has assisted the Johnson Space Center?s Automation, Robotics, and Simulation Division in the development of advanced robotics systems and is a consultant to NASA?s Space Human Factors Engineering Project. A veteran of four Space Shuttle missions, she has accrued 1,000 hours in space. She flew as mission specialist ? flight engineer, on STS-57 (1993), STS-70 (1995), STS-88 (1998; the first International Space Station assembly mission), and STS-109 (2002).
Spaceflights:
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 STS-57 MSP 21.06. - 01.07.1993 9d 23h 44m
2 STS-70 MSP 13.07. - 22.07.1995 8d 22h 20m
3 STS-88 MSP 04.12. - 15.12.1998 11d 19h 18m
4 STS-109 MSP 01.03. - 12.03.2002 10d 22h 10m
Total 41d 15h 32m
