Joan Higginbotham

Joan Higginbotham

Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham (born August 3, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist.

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