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Bonnie J. Dunbar

1949 - Today

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Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar (born March 3, 1949) is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. She flew on five Space Shuttle missions between 1985 and 1998, including two dockings with the Mir space station. A graduate of the University of Washington, where she earned a Master of Science degree in ceramics engineering, Dunbar became a senior research engineer in Rockwell International's Space Division, where she designed the equipment and manufacturing processes used to fabricate the ceramic tiles used in the Space Shuttle thermal protection system. In 1978, she joined NASA as a flight controller / payload officer, and was a guidance and navigation controller for Skylab during its de-orbiting and re-entry in July 1979. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bonnie J. Dunbar is the 274th most popular astronaut (down from 220th in 2019), the 9,738th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,484th in 2019) and the 128th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Bonnie J. Dunbar ranks 274 out of 556. Before her are Eileen Collins, John Herrington, Nikolai Budarin, Gregory R. Wiseman, Yury Onufriyenko, and Robert F. Overmyer. After her are Daniel Brandenstein, Yury Usachov, Akihiko Hoshide, Robert L. Stewart, John Oliver Creighton, and Steven R. Nagel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Bonnie J. Dunbar ranks 584. Before her are Wendy Sherman, Jack McGee, Kęstutis Šapka, Gregory Areshian, David A. Johnston, and Michael Hogan. After her are Suthep Thaugsuban, Rauno Miettinen, John Shea, Christina Heinich, György Gedó, and Fayez Tarawneh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bonnie J. Dunbar ranks 9,740 out of 20,380. Before her are Daniel Kelly (1883), Eddie Rickenbacker (1890), Mary Miles Minter (1902), A. J. Foyt (1935), Utada Hikaru (1983), and Marc Webb (1974). After her are Tim Ryan (1973), John Varley (1947), Terry McDermott (1940), Michael Novak (1933), John Kander (1927), and Kathryn Crosby (1933).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Bonnie J. Dunbar ranks 128. Before her are Joe F. Edwards Jr. (1958), Jerry L. Ross (1948), Eileen Collins (1956), John Herrington (1958), Gregory R. Wiseman (1975), and Robert F. Overmyer (1936). After her are Daniel Brandenstein (1943), Robert L. Stewart (1942), John Oliver Creighton (1943), Steven R. Nagel (1946), Brewster H. Shaw (1945), and Norman Thagard (1943).

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