Kathryn "Kay" Hire
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1959-09-26
Status Retired
Type Government
Astronaut Biography
Kathryn Patricia "Kay" Hire is a NASA astronaut and Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve who has flown aboard two Space Shuttle missions. Hire began work at the Kennedy Space Center in May 1989,first as an Orbiter Processing Facility 3 Activation Engineer selected by NASA in December 1994.
