October 13, 1984 - Kathy Sullivan - a podcast by Stephen Hammond

Challenger brings home the first American woman to walk in outer space. Kathy Sullivan was born October 3, 1951, in Paterson, New Jersey, but spent most of her life in California. After receiving a degree in earth sciences in California, she pursued a doctorate in geology from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, graduating in 1978. As an astronaut with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1979, she took part in three space missions. On October 13, 1984, the spaceship Challenger brought home its five-man, two-woman crew from an eight-day mission during which Sullivan had become the first American woman to walk in space. The voyage also held Canadian experiments and an IMAX camera that recorded the historic flight. Among other achievements, Sullivan was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2004.

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