Kathryn D. Sullivan

American astronaut (born 1951)

Kathryn D. Sullivan is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.

The record lists Kathryn D. Sullivan as American astronaut (born 1951).

Kathryn D. Sullivan was born at Paterson in 1951. Her recorded nationality is the United States. She was educated at University of California, Santa Cruz and Dalhousie University.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

Kathryn D. Sullivan is described as astronaut, geologist and scientist.

Her affiliations include National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Smithsonian Institution and United States Department of Commerce.

The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.

Her recorded fields of work are geology, oceanography and astronautics.

Formal recognition came in the shape of the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame (2002), United States Astronaut Hall of Fame (2004) and Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey.

Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.

Kathryn D. Sullivan is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.

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