Emily Carney

This Space Available By Emily Carney

Astronaut Susan Still’s (now Kilrain) aerospace career is a catalog of incredible accomplishments: with an impeccable academic and military service record, she was the first in her astronaut class to fly, flew the same mission twice due to the first mission being cut short, and was the youngest person to pilot the Space Shuttle. So why did she never command a Shuttle mission, and why was her astronaut career shorter than those of many of her colleagues? She…