Encyclopedia > Tamara Jernigan

Article Content

Tamara Jernigan

Tamara Jernigan (born May 7, 1959, in Tennessee) is a female astronaut, who flew in five space shuttle missions (three with Columbia and one each with Endeavour and Discovery). In her last mission on the Discovery in 1999, she performed an extra-vehicular activity for about 8 hours.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Flapper

... for their style, which largely emerged as a result of the musical style of jazz and the popularization of dancing that accompanied it. Called garconne in French, flapper ...