Karen Nyberg

Karen Nyberg was born on October 7, 1969, and from Vining, Minnesota, USA. Karen served as an astronaut for 20 years before retiring and served as an American mechanical engineer, in 2008 she became the 50th woman in space on her first mission.

On March 27th, Karen Nyberg’s Husband Doug Hurley will be on the Crew Dragon along with Bob Behnken for the historic NASA SpaceX launch, they both are veteran astronauts and it will be the first flight of an American spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts launching from U.S. soil since the space shuttle completed its final mission in 2011.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Mission

NASA SpaceX launch is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, May 27, at 4:33 p.m. Eastern in Florida. Furthermore, The SpaceX Crew Dragon will lift off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A in Florida for an extended stay at the space station for the Demo-2 mission.

Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are two NASA astronauts who were assigned to this mission in 2018. After two years of training for this flight with both NASA and SpaceX, they’re ready to don SpaceX’s custom space suits and take their seats inside the capsule. In 2014, SpaceX started leasing the complex from NASA and transformed the launchpad to support flights of the company’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.

They both will make their way to the launchpad at around 1 PM ET in a white Tesla Model X and liftoff scheduled for 4:33 PM ET. After the Liftoff The Falcon 9 will release the Crew Dragon into low Earth orbit about 12 minutes after takeoff and it returns to the Earth and land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

After 19 Hours of Orbit, the docking should take place at 11:29 AM ET on Thursday, May 28th. Then, if everything goes well Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will join NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner on the ISS.

The Crew Dragon can stay in orbit for 110 days, but the exact duration of this mission is being determined. The operational Crew Dragon used later will be able to stay in orbit for at least 210 days, per NASA requirements.

Karen Nyberg In an Interview told that “But I have so much confidence in the two of them as operators,” and added “I know if there are any problems, they are cool, calm and collected and (will) work through it. As far as the risk goes, you know, I accepted risk for myself a long time ago and just understand that that’s part of our career.”

Husband

Karen Nyberg and Doug Hurley have one child, a son Jack. When Karen was on the Atlantis Jack was just 18 months old and he was 3 on her last flight and curently his age is 10.

In an Interview with CBS Karen Nyberg spoked about their son, she said “He’s talked about how proud of his dad but you know, I don’t want to talk about being scared or nervous either and have him pick up on that. So we’ll see how it goes when the day comes.”

In September, Karen Nyberg posted a photograph of a stuffed dinosaur she had created in orbit from space station scraps, which is thought to be the first stuffed animal handcrafted in space. Moreover, she scavenged material for the stuffed dinosaur from things on the orbital, including a used T-shirt and fabric that lines Russian food containers.

Douglas G. Hurley is an American engineer, former Marine Corps pilot, and current NASA astronaut. Talking about his career he piloted Space Shuttle missions STS-127 (July 2009) and STS-135 (July 2011), the final flight of the Space Shuttle program. Additionally, he was the first Marine to fly the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet.

He received the NASA Superior Accomplishment Award in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. Apart from this Douglas is a recipient of the Stephen A. Hazelrigg Memorial Award for best Test Pilot/Engineer Team, Naval Strike Aircraft Test Squadron.

Family

How Old is Karen Nyberg? She was born on October 7, 1969, and from Vining, Minnesota, USA, she is 51 years old as of 2020. She is the daughter of Kenneth (Mother) and Phyllis Nyberg (Father).

Talking about her education, Karen Nyberg attended Henning Public High School and graduated from the University of North Dakota with B.S., Mechanical Engineering, and earned Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas, 1996.

In 1998, Karen Nyberg graduated from the University of Texas with Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering.

Career

In 2020, Karen Nyberg retired from NASA and started her career in 1991 and spent a total of 180 days in space in 2008 and 2013. Earlier, in 2008 she became the 50th woman in space on her first mission and served 20 years before retiring.

In July 2000, she was selected as an astronaut candidate and qualified as a missions specialist after two years of training. Then, in 2010 she was assigned to another flight but had to be replaced by Col. Michael Good because of a temporary medical condition.

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In 2013, Karen Nyberg was a flight engineer on ISS Expedition 36 and 37, spending 166 days in orbit. On the 50th anniversary on June 16, 2013, of Vostok 6, the first space shot by a woman, Valentina Tereshkova, Nyberg was one of only two women than in space, the other being Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping aboard the Tiangong-1 on the Shenzhou 10 mission.

Before retiring Karen Nyberg served for NASA in the Space Shuttle branch, the Exploration branch, and as Chief of the Robotics branch. Talking about her Achievements Karen Nyberg was Awards such as:

• UND Young Alumni Achievement Award (2004)
• Space Act Award (1993)
• NASA JSC Patent Application Award (1993)
• NASA Tech Briefs Award (1993)
• NASA JSC Cooperative Education Special Achievement Award (1994)
• Joyce Medalen Society of Women Engineers Award (1993–94)
• D.J. Robertson Award of Academic Achievement (1992)
• University of North Dakota School of Engineering & Mines Meritorious Service Award (1991–1992).

Net Worth

Estimated Net Worth of Karen Nyberg is $1.2 Million USD as of 2020. She stands 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs around 58KG.