Best known for being an electrical engineer and a NASA astronaut part of the "Astronaut Group 21" since 2015
She obtained a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2002
She wanted to become an astronaut since she was a little girl in North Carolina
She was part of expeditions 59, 60 and 61 of the International Space Station as a Flight Engineer, started in March 2019 and planned to complete towards the end of the year