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Long Haul in Space: Pushing New Frontiers

Dr Shannon Walker is a NASA astronaut and space physicist who has spent just short of a year (330 days) living in Earth orbit on the International Space Station.

In 2010 she piloted the Soyuz spacecraft that took her and her crew to the ISS where she served as a Flight Engineer for the next six months.  In 2020, she was mission specialist aboard the Resilience for the first operational crewed flight of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to the ISS, where on arrival she became ISS flight engineer and Space Station Commander for another six months.  Soon after her return from orbit in May of last year, she started training the next generation, becoming the supervisor for the 2021 class of astronauts.

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NASA Astronaut Dr Shannon Walker

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Lake Wānaka Centre (89 Ardmore Street, Wānaka)

5:30pm Tue 1 November, 2022 - 7:00pm Tue 1 November, 2022