Mary Ellen Weber was born on August 24, 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Bedford Heights, Ohio.  Mary received her Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Purdue University in 1984 and received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988. 

Mary began skydiving during college and has successfully completed over 3,300 skydives.  She received a silver medal in the U.S. National Skydiving Championships and participated in the world’s largest free fall formation with 297 people.  After graduate school, Mary received her pilot’s license.

After researching process in which to make new computer chips for Texas Instruments, Mary applied to NASA and was selected to become an astronaut in 1992.  She has been on two space flights and had logged over 450 hours in space.  During her second flight, Mary conducted biotechnology experiments dealing with colon cancer.

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