#  Dr. Cady Coleman 

Astronaut, US Air Force Colonel, Chemist, and Engineer

 

 

 



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Cady Coleman is a former NASA Astronaut and a retired US Air Force Colonel with more than 180 days in space, accumulated during two space shuttle missions and a six-month expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) as the Lead Robotics and Lead Science officer.

Cady served in a variety of roles within the Astronaut Office, including Chief of Robotics and lead astronaut for integration of supply ships from NASA’s commercial partners. Before retiring from NASA, she led open-innovation and public-private partnership efforts for NASA’s Chief Technologist.

A popular public speaker and media consultant, she also serves as a research affiliate to [MIT’s Media Lab](https://www.media.mit.edu/). She is a regular contributor to ABC for space exploration news and co-hosted Arizona State University’s [Mission: Interplanetary](https://interplanetary.asu.edu/?project=mission-interplanetary) podcast.

Cady’s book, [*Sharing Space: An Astronaut’s Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change*](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/716306/sharing-space-by-cady-coleman/), has garnered praise from a wide range of thought leaders for its candid stories and widely applicable insights. She and her family were recently featured in two documentaries, PBS’s [*The Longest Goodbye*](https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-longest-goodbye/), and [*The Wonderful: Stories from the Space Station*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13368696/).



 

 

 





 

 

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