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Keynote Speaker
Susan Helms
Retired Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and Former NASA Astronaut


Astronaut Susan Helms (Lieutenant General, USAF, Ret.) is a retired astronaut, flight test engineer, and military officer.

After receiving her B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the US Air Force Academy in 1980, Helms served in a number of technical assignments, including as an exchange officer with the Canadian Forces at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta. She also received her M.S in Aero/Astro from Stanford University in 1985 and graduated from the USAF Test Pilot School as a Flight Test Engineer in 1988. Prior to her selection for NASA, Helms had flown in more than 30 US and Canadian aircraft. While at NASA from 1990–2002, Helms flew on five space missions, including a more than five month stay on the International Space Station in 2001.

Helms’s first flight was STS-54, aboard Endeavour, a six-day mission that deployed a tracking and data relay satellite and utilized an x-ray spectrometer in the payload bay to gather information that allowed investigators to further understand the origins of the Milky Way Galaxy.

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