Joan Higginbotham

Joan Higginbotham

American astronaut and engineer

📍 Chicago, Illinois USA

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Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham is an electrical engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist and is the third African American woman to go into space, after Mae Jemison and Stephanie Wilson.

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