NAME:  Nancy Jane Sherlock (Captain, USA)
       NASA Astronaut
 
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE:  Born December 29, 1958, in Wilmington, Delaware,
but considers Troy, Ohio to be her hometown.  Her parents, Warren &
Shirley Decker, reside in Troy.
 
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:  Brown hair; brown eyes; 5 feet; 95 pounds.
 
EDUCATION:  Graduated from Troy High School, Troy, Ohio, in 1977;
received a bachelor of arts degree in biological science from Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio, in 1980, and a master of science
degree in safety engineering from the University of Southern
California in 1985.
 
MARITAL STATUS:  Single.
 
CHILDREN  One daughter, Stephanie Marie, born January 30, 1987.
 
RECREATIONAL INTERESTS:  Running, swimming, triathlons, water skiing,
and scuba diving.
 
ORGANIZATIONS:  Member of American Society of Systems Safety
Engineers, Human Factors Society, Phi Kappa Phi, Women Military
Aviators, Whirly Girls, and the Army Aviation Officer Advanced Course
(1986), NASA Flight Simulation Engineering Award (1988).
 
SPECIAL HONORS:  Arts and Sciences Award for Scholarship, Ohio State
University (1980), Distinguished Graduate of the Army Air Defense
Artillery Officer Basic Course (1981), Honor Graduate of the Army
Rotary Wing Aviator Course (1982), Honor Graduate of the Army Aviation
Officer Advanced Course (1986), NASA Flight Simulation Engineering
Award (1988).
 
EXPERIENCE:  Sherlock graduated with honors from Ohio State University
in June 1980.  Prior to entering on active duty with the United States
Army, she was a Neuropathology Research Assistant at the Ohio State
University College of Medicine.  She was commissioned as a Second
Lieutenant in Air Defense Artillery in July 1981.  After completion of
the Air Defense Officer Basic Course, she attended the United States
Army Aviation School.  She was then assigned to Fort Rucker, Alabama
as a US-1H Instructor Pilot and served as a Section Leader, Platoon
Leader, and Brigade Flight Standardization Officer.  While at Fort
Rucker, she was also designated as a Standardization Instructor Pilot
for all phases of rotary wing flight, including combat skills and
night vision goggle operations.  She also completed the Aviation
Officer Advanced Course, the Combined Arms Services Staff School, and
the Fixed Wing Multi-Engine Qualification Course.  A Senior Army
Aviator, she has logged 2,700 flying hours in 9 different rotary wing
and fixed wing aircraft.
 
NASA EXPERIENCE:  Sherlock was assigned to NASA Johnson Space Center
in September 1987 as a flight simulation engineer on the Shuttle
Training Aircraft, a complex airborne simulator which models flight
characteristics of the orbiter.  Responsibilities included developing
and directing engineering flight tests.  Selected by NASA in January
1990, Sherlock became an astronaut in July 1991.  She is qualified for
assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flight
crews.  Her technical assignments to date include work on crew
equipment issues for the Astronaut Office Mission Development Branch.
 
CURRENT ASSIGNMENT:  Sherlock is assigned as a mission specialist on
the crew of STS-57, which will carry the commercial middeck
augmentation module called SPACEHAB and retrieve the European
Retrievable Carrier (EURECA).  STS-57 is scheduled for launch in
mid-1993.
 
APRIL 1992