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Tamara E. (Tammy) Jernigan (born May 7, 1959, in
Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an United
States|American astronaut. She flew on five space
shuttle missions (three on Space Shuttle
Columbia|Columbia and one each on Space Shuttle
Endeavour|Endeavour and Space Shuttle
Discovery|Discovery) and logged 1512 hours in
space. In her last mission on  Discovery in 1999,
she performed an extra-vehicular activity for
about 8 hours.

Jernigan attended Stanford University, where she
earned a B.S. degree in physics in 1981, an M.S.
in engineering science in 1983.  At the University
of California, Berkeley, she received an M.S. in
astronomy in 1985. In 1988 she was awarded a Ph.D.
in space physics and astronomy from Rice
University. She entered the NASA astronaut corps
in 1986 and retired in 2001.  She is married to
astronaut Peter Wisoff.

==External links==
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http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/jernigan.htm
l NASA official biography


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