Editing Catherine Coleman (section)

== Personal ==
Coleman is married to [[glass art]]ist [[Josh Simpson (glass artist)|Josh Simpson]] who lives in [[Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://joshsimpson.com/site/|title=Josh Simpson – Contemporary Glass}}</ref> They have two sons. She is part of the band Bandella, which also includes fellow NASA astronaut [[Stephen Robinson]], Canadian astronaut [[Chris Hadfield]], and Micki Pettit (wife of the astronaut [[Donald Pettit]]). Coleman is a [[flute]] player and has taken several flutes with her to the ISS, including a [[pennywhistle]] from [[Paddy Moloney]] of [[The Chieftains]], an old [[Irish flute]] from [[Matt Molloy]] of The Chieftains, and a flute from [[Ian Anderson]] of [[Jethro Tull (band)]]. On February 15, 2011, she played one of the instruments live from orbit on [[National Public Radio]].<ref name=NPR20110217>{{cite web|title=Flutes in Space: Astronaut Plays Aboard Space Station|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/02/15/133780067/flutes-in-space-astronaut-plays-aboard-space-station|publisher=[[NPR]] |access-date=February 17, 2011}}</ref> 

On April 12, 2011, she played a duet with Ian Anderson to honour [[Yuri Gagarin]]'s 50th anniversary of his flight. She first recorded her part, which later on Anderson joined while on tour in [[Perm, Russia|Perm]].<ref>{{cite web|title=NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson Perform First Space-Earth Flute Duet|website=[[NASA]] |url=https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-astronaut-cady-coleman-jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-perform-first-space-earth-flute-duet/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeC4nqBB5BM| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211124/XeC4nqBB5BM| archive-date=2021-11-24 | url-status=live|title=Ian Anderson + Cady Coleman flute duet in space| website=[[YouTube]]| date=April 8, 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref> 

On May 13 of that year, Coleman delivered a taped commencement address to the class of 2011 at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/nasa_astronaut_catherine_cady_coleman_2011_umass_commencement.html|title=NASA astronaut Catherine 'Cady' Coleman has message from space for 2011 UMass graduates: Work as a team to solve nation's problems|website=masslive.com|date=May 14, 2011 }}</ref>

As do many other astronauts, Coleman holds an [[amateur radio]] license (callsign: KC5ZTH).

As of 2015, she is also known to be working as a guest speaker at the [[Baylor College of Medicine]], for the children's program "Saturday Morning Science".

In 2018, she gave a graduation address to [[Carter Lynch]], the sole graduate of [[Cuttyhunk Elementary School]], on [[Cuttyhunk Island]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Taylor|first1=Derrick Bryson |title=Jenny Slate Will Give a Graduation Speech to a Class of One|url=https://nyti.ms/2K61dpd|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 5, 2019|access-date=June 5, 2019}}</ref>

In 2019 the Irish postal service [[An Post]] issued a set of commemorative stamps for the 50th anniversary of the [[Apollo program|Apollo Moon landings]], Catherine Coleman is featured alongside fellow astronauts [[Neil Armstrong]], [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]], and [[Eileen Collins]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum20/HTML/001421.html |title=Touch Down for Astronaut to unveil Space Exploration stamps | author=Robert Pearlman |date= July 23, 2019 |website=collectspace.com}}</ref>