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Stefanyshyn-Piper was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, North America. Of Ukrainian-American heritage, Stefanyshyn-Piper graduated in 1980 from what was then the all-girls Derham Hall High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, and holds Bachelor of Science (1984) and Master of Science (1985) degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT. She is a licensed Amateur radio operator (ham) with Technician License KD5TVR.
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Stefanyshyn-Piper received her commission from the Navy ROTC Program at MIT in June 1985. She completed training at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, Florida as a Navy Basic Diving Officer and Salvage Officer. During her Salvage tour, she participated in the de-stranding of the tanker Exxon Houston off the coast of Barber's Point, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Stefanyshyn-Piper is currently a Captain in the United States Navy. hidden safes
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Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in April 1996, Stefanyshyn-Piper reported to the Johnson Space Center in August, 1996. After two years of training and evaluation, she qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. Initially assigned to astronaut support duties for launch and landing, she has also served as lead Astronaut Office Representative for Payloads and in the Astronaut Office EVA branch.
STS-115
Stefanyshyn-Piper flew her first mission on STS-115 (launched September 9, 2006 and returned September 21), as a Mission Specialist and became only the 8th woman to perform a spacewalk (out of 180 total spacewalkers). Stefanyshyn-Piper's two EVAs for a total of 12 hours, 8 minutes made her the second most experienced female spacewalker. She also became the first Minnesotan woman to go into space.
On September 22, 2006, Stefanyshyn-Piper collapsed twice during a welcome-home ceremony with family and friends. She had "period of light-headedness" while speaking during the ceremony at Ellington Field in Houston. A flight surgeon examined Stefanyshyn-Piper and said she had no health issues, but was simply still making the readjustment to Earth's gravity from the weightlessness of space.
STS-126
Piper flew as a Mission Specialist on STS-126 during which she participated in three spacewalks. The mission ended when Space Shuttle Endeavour landed successfully at Edwards Air Force Base on November 30, 2008.
Following Piper's third spacewalk during STS-126, her fifth overall, her total time in EVA became 33 hours, 42 minutes, putting her in twenty-fifth place for total time in EVA.
Lost tool bag during spacewalk
During the first EVA of STS-126 on November 18, 2008 as Piper was preparing to begin work on the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint, she noticed a significant amount of grease in her tool bag. "I think we had a grease gun explode in the large bag, because there's grease in the bag," Piper reported to Kimbrough, who was working inside the shuttle to help coordinate the EVA. Mission Control managers instructed Piper to clean up the grease using a dry wipe, and while she was doing the cleanup, one of the crew lock bags floated away. "I guess one of my crew lock bags was not transferred and it's loose," Piper told Kimbrough. The bag floated aft and starboard of the station, and did not pose a risk to the station or orbiter. The bag and its contents entered Low Earth Orbit as space debris, where it eventually burned-up as it entered the Earth's atmosphere west of Mexico on August 3, 2009. When in orbit, it was visible from the ground using a telescope.
After taking an inventory of the items inside the lost bag, managers on the ground determined that Bowen had all those items in his bag, and the two could share equipment. While it extended the EVA duration slightly, the major objectives were not changed. The estimated value of the equipment lost is US$100,000.
During the Mission Status Briefing, lead ISS Flight Director Ginger Kerrick said that there was no way to know what caused the bag to come loose. "We don't know that this incident occurred because they forgot to tether something. We don't know if perhaps the hook just came loose inside the bag," Kerrick said. "You've got to remember, we are working with humans here and we are prone to human error. We do the best we can, and we learn from our mistakes." Said Stefanyshyn-Piper of the incident, "that definitely was not the high point of the EVA. It was very disheartening to watch it float away."
Retirement from NASA
In July 2009, Stefanyshyn-Piper retired from NASA's astronaut corps to return to her Navy duties.
Personal
Stefanyshyn-Piper's father, Michael (Mykhailo) Stefanyshyn, now deceased, was born in Halychyna region of Ukraine, and sent to work in Germany during World War II. After the end of the war, he married a German woman and they both immigrated to the USA. Stefanyshyn-Piper's mother, Adelheid Stefanyshyn, still lives in St. Paul. Stefanyshyn-Piper was raised in Ukranian community, and speaks Ukranian. Stefanyshyn-Piper married Glenn A. Piper, and they have one son, Michael, named after Piper's grandfather. Stefanyshyn-Piper hyphenated her maiden to serve as a reminder of her family roots. She enjoys scuba diving, swimming, running, roller blading, and ice skating.
References
^ a b c d e f g h NASA. "Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper". NASA. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/stefanys.html. Retrieved 2008-11-21. 
^ Fred Lloyd (November 21, 2008). "Heidemarie M Stefanyshyn-Piper". QRZ.COM. http://www.qrz.com/detail/KD5TVR. Retrieved 2008-11-21. 
^ ARRL (September 11, 2006). "Five Radio Amateurs Now Aboard ISS". American Radio Relay League, Inc. http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/09/11/101/. Retrieved 2008-11-21. 
^ Associated Press (2006). "Astronaut First Minnesota Woman In Space". CBS Broadcasting Inc. http://wcco.com/topstories/Heidemarie.Stefanyshyn.Piper.2.361065.html. Retrieved November 20, 2008. 
^ a b CBC News (2006). "Atlantis astronaut collapses at ceremony". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/09/22/astronaut-collapse.html. Retrieved November 20, 2008. 
^ a b Fredricka Whitfield (2008). "Astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper Collapses Twice During Welcome Home Ceremony". CNN. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/22/cnr.05.html. Retrieved November 20, 2008. 
^ William Harwood for CBS News (2008). "Spacewalk No. 3 ends". Spaceflightnow.com. http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts126/081122fd9/index4.html. Retrieved November 22, 2008. 
^ a b c d William Harwood for CBS News (2008). "Bag of tools escapes from spacewalker and floats away". Spaceflightnow.com. http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts126/081118fd5/index2.html. Retrieved November 18, 2008. 
^ a b NASA RSS (2008). "Astronauts Resume Spacewalk After Tools Lost". NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/rss_feed_above_snip_collection_archive_1.html. Retrieved November 18, 2008. 
^ Tariq Malik, Managing Editor, Space.com "Tool Bag Lost In Space Meets Fiery End" August 3, 2009
^ a b http://www.space.com/news/090803-space-tool-bag-burns-up.html
^ p2pnet news (2008). "Kevin Fetter videos astronaut lost tool bag". People to People. http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17699. Retrieved December 17, 2008. 
^ bbc.co.uk (November 21, 2008). "Nothing lost in space - this time". bbc.co.uk. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7741582.stm. Retrieved November 21, 2008. 
^ a b Associated Press (2008). "Astronaut Who Lost Tool Bag Admits Mistake". WFTV. http://www.wftv.com/news/18018286/detail.html?rss=orlc&psp=news. Retrieved November 20, 2008. 
^ a b c d e Volodymyr Karpiy (January 2, 2007). "During her visit to the land of her ancestors, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper is surprised and happy with the way she was met by her countrymen". Victor Pinchuk Foundation. http://pinchukfund.org/en/media/publications/2007/128.html. Retrieved 2009-03-23. 
External links
Spacefacts.de biography of Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
http://www.heavens-above.com/orbitdisplay.asp?satid=33442
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Duane G. Carey  Stephen Frick  Charles O. Hobaugh  James M. Kelly  Mark E. Kelly  Scott J. Kelly  Paul Lockhart  Christopher Loria  William C. McCool  Mark L. Polansky
Mission Specialists
David M. Brown  Daniel C. Burbank  Yvonne D. Cagle  Fernando Caldeiro  Charles J. Camarda  Laurel B. Clark  E. Michael Fincke  Patrick G. Forrester  John B. Herrington  Joan E. Higginbotham  Sandra H. Magnus  Michael J. Massimino  Richard A. Mastracchio  Lee M.E. Morin  Lisa M. Nowak  Donald R. Pettit  John L. Phillips  Paul W. Richards  Piers J. Sellers  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper  Daniel M. Tani  Rex J. Walheim  Peggy A. Whitson  Jeffrey N. Williams  Stephanie D. Wilson
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