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Known as
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One of the first two Americans to train at the Russian Cosmonaut Training Center
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A veteran of five space shuttle missions
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Career
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1980 Was accepted into the NASA astronaut program; completed her training and was selected as an astronaut the following year
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1983 Received her Ph.D. in mechanical and biomedical engineering from the University of Houston
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October 30-November 6, 1985 Acted as mission specialist on the West German D-1 Spacelab mission, the first shuttle mission in which activities were planned and controlled by non-U.S. citizens
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January 9-20, 1990 Served as mission specialist on the space shuttle Columbia, and was principal investigator on two of the shuttle's major experiments
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June 25-July 9, 1992 Served as payload commander on Columbia, in a mission dedicated to microgravity experiments
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March 1995 Following 13 months of training in Russia, Dunbar was qualified by the Russian cosmonaut training program to fly long-duration missions on Mir, the Russian space station.
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June 27-July 7, 1995 Served as mission specialist on Atlantis, the first space shuttle to dock with Mir
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January 22-31, 1998 Served as payload commander on Endeavour, where she was responsible for 23 experiments
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Did You Know
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Dunbar logged more than 1,208 hours (more than 50 days) in space.
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Both Dunbar's bachelor's and master's degrees are in ceramic engineering, from the University of Washington.
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In addition to being an astronaut, Dunbar is a private pilot.
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