About Stephanie Wilson
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 2026, her almost 43 days in space are the second most of any female African American astronaut, having been surpassed by Jessica Watkins in 2022. On December 9, 2020, NASA announced that Stephanie Wilson was among the candidates for the Artemis program, and if selected, she could be both the first woman and the first African-American on the Moon. On October 18, 2019, Wilson was ground controller at Houston for the first all woman spacewalk by Christina Koch and Jessica Meir. STS-120 (October 23 – November 7, 2007) was a 6.25 million mile Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station. Wilson graduated from Taconic High School, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1984.
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