NASA astronaut Susan Still-Kilrain
Astronaut Susan Still-Kilrain inspires visitors to the Technik Museum Speyer

On Saturday 17 August, NASA astronaut Susan Still-Kilrain provided a real highlight at Europe's largest exhibition on manned space travel, ‘Apollo and Beyond’, at the Technik Museum Speyer. As one of only three women to have flown into space as a pilot during the Space Shuttle programme, Still-Kilrain reported on her two space missions on board the space shuttle ‘Columbia’ (STS-83 and STS-94) in her lecture in front of a sold-out audience.

After the inspiring lecture, Susan Still-Kilrain was available for a signing session, during which there was great demand for her children's book ‘An Unlikely Astronaut’. The book, which is also available in the museum shop, delighted young and old alike.

Still-Kilrain is the 66th astronaut to visit the exhibition since it opened in 2008 - another special chapter in the success story of ‘Apollo and Beyond’.

In 2025, one or two space travellers will visit us in Speyer, including CNES astronaut Patrick Baudry.