Cady coleman

Cady Coleman is a former NASA Astronaut and a retired US Air Force Colonel with more than 180 days in space, accumulated during two space shuttle missions and a six-month expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) as the Lead Robotics and Lead Science officer. 

Cady served in a variety of roles within the Astronaut Office, including Chief of Robotics, and lead astronaut for integration of supply ships from NASA’s commercial partners. Before retiring from NASA, she led open-innovation and public-private partnership efforts for NASA’s Chief Technologist.

A popular public speaker and media consultant, she also serves as a research affiliate to MIT’s Media Lab. She is a regular contributor to ABC for space exploration news and co-hosted Arizona State University’s Mission: Interplanetary podcast. 

Cady’s book, Sharing Space: An Astronaut’s Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change, has garnered praise from a wide range of thought leaders for its candid stories and widely-applicable insights. She and her family were recently featured in two documentaries, PBS’s The Longest Goodbye, and The Wonderful: Stories from the Space Station.