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Norah Patten

Norah Patten is an Irish aeronautical engineer from Ballina, County Mayo. Patten was selected to potentially become the first Irish person in space as part of a mission on board the Virgin Galactic, a second-generation spacecraft. This mission, known as Delta, is proposed to take place in 2026/2027. Source: Wikipedia.org Patten was born in Ballina, County Mayo. She attended St. Mary's Secondary School, and has been fascinated by space since visiting NASA's Glenn Research Centre in Cleveland, Ohio when she was 11 years old. She designed rockets for her junior certificate art project. She has visited NASA on several occasions during her teenager years. She has studied Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Limerick. Patten completed a work placement at Boeing during her undergraduate degree program and continued her education at the University of Limerick, where she obtained a doctorate in Aerodynamics in 2011. Patten participated European Space Agency supported Alpbach Summer School in 2008 and graduated from the International Space University Space Studies Program in 2010.

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