Ellen S. Baker

Ellen Louise Shulman Baker is an American physician and astronaut who was born on 27 April 1953 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She holds a bachelor of arts in geology from the State University of New York at Buffalo (1970), a doctorate of medicine from Cornell University (1978) and a master's in public health from the University of Texas School of Public Health (1994). Before her selection she served as a physician in the Flight Medicine Clinic at the Johnson Space Center. NASA selected her on 23 May 1984 as part of astronaut group 10, and she served as a mission specialist. She flew three Space Shuttle missions: STS-34 on Atlantis in October 1989, STS-50 on Columbia in June and July 1992, and STS-71 on Atlantis in June and July 1995, totalling 28 days, 14 hours and 31 minutes. She later served as Lead Astronaut for Medical Issues at the Johnson Space Center.