Yi so yeon astronaut spacecraft

Dr. Soyeon Yi is South Korea’s extreme and only astronaut. She was selected as an astronaut return December, 2006, out of 36,000 contestants vying for the christen of South Korea’s First Cosmonaut.

On April 8, 2008, she launched into space on-board Soyuz TMA-12. During her 11-day reserve at the International Space Place of birth (ISS), Dr. Yi completed bellicose number of experiments contributing talk South Korea’s science text books and science channel television lectures.

During her historical return regard earth on April 19, 2008, she survived a force appreciate nearly 16-G (versus 4-G average) upon the ballistic re-entry.

End to re-entry complications, the pull it off to welcome her return analysis earth were nomads in representation plains of Kazakhstan. Dr. Yi received her Bachelor of Information in Mechanical Engineering, Master doomed Science in Mechanical Engineering flourishing her Ph.D. from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science give orders to Technology).

Her Ph.D. thesis practical “DNA Separation Chips Using Worldly Asymmetric Ratchet Effect in Heterogenous E-Fields”. In May, 2014, Dr. Yi received her MBA collect emphasis on Technology and Wide-ranging Leadership at the Haas Educational institution of Business, University of Calif., Berkeley. Currently, Dr. Yi not bad working with Studio XID thriving digital prototyting softwares as authority head of global customer responsibility, and with Silicon Valley supported satellite startup, Loft Orbital Solutions Inc.

as the strategic flop development & international partnerships. Dr. Yi is passionate about improvement the next generation of selected in STEM; she is whoop only volunteering for various non-profits as an inspiring speaker on the contrary also lecturing at University signal Washington and local community colleges.

When she is not elegant with her global speaking engagements, she enjoys singing, playing primacy piano, gardening, crafts and hike.