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Longest time spent in space at once!
Peggy A. Whitson (PH.D.)
Peggy A. Whitson (Ph.D.), an Iowa native, completed two six-month tours of duty and a third, nearly one year mission, aboard the International Space Station.
She served as the station commander during her second flight for Expedition 16 and her third for Expedition 51. Across all three NASA spaceflights, Whitson has accumulated 665 days in space, the most for any woman. Whitson has also performed a total of ten career spacewalks, adding up to 60 hours and 21 minutes.
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Whitson retired from NASA in June 2018.
Born February 9, 1960, in Mt. Ayr, Iowa. Hometown is Beaconsfield, Iowa. Married to Clarence F. Sams, Ph.D. Dr. Whitson enjoys weightlifting, biking, basketball and water skiing.
Graduated from Mt.
Ayr Community High School, Mt. Ayr, Iowa, in 1978; received a Bachelor of Science in
Biology/Chemistry from Iowa Wesleyan College in 1981 and a Doctorate in Biochemistry from Rice University in 1985.
From 1981 to 1985, Dr.
Whitson conducted her graduate work
