Sandra Hall Magnus

Sandra Hall Magnus (born October 30, 1964) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut.

Magnus was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1996 and flew her first space mission, STS-112, in October 2002 as a mission specialist. Magnus served as Flight Engineer on board the International Space Station as part of Expedition 18. Magnus was a Mission Specialist on STS-126 for the trip to the station, which launched on November 14, 2008. She served as Mission Specialist on STS-119 when it returned on March 28, 2009. She was assigned to the crew of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle.

She logged 133 days in orbit, leaving the NASA Astronaut corps to become the Executive Director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).