Stephanie Osborn

Stephanie Osborn is a former payload flight controller, a veteran of over
twenty years of working in the civilian space program, as well as various
military space defense programs. Stephanie holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences:
Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, and she is "fluent" in several more, including Geology and Anatomy. She obtained her various
degrees from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN and
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She has worked on numerous Space Shuttle flights and the International Space
Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her resume. Of those astronauts she trained, one was Kalpana Chawla, or "K.C.," a member
of the crew lost in the Columbia disaster. Stephanie is currently retired from space work. She now happily "passes it forward," tutoring math and science to students in the Huntsville area, from
elementary through college, while writing science fiction mysteries based on her knowledge, experience, and travels.