Name: 
Cara Looperson

Age: 
25

Appearance (real photos please): 
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Job aboard the ship:
Cara is one of the space engineers on aboard that helped design and construct the space craft. She had astronaut training and was, therefore, employed on the satellite repair mission. 

Background and personality:
Cara is something of a workaholic. She has worked obsessively in the space industry since she left school and has done little else; she has a small flat and no partner. Though young, she has managed to work her way through the ranks to gain a senior ranking - much to the annoyance of her peers - and has headed many large projects. Being a woman, she has had to adopt a harsh, efficient, organised personality to be take seriously in the male-dominated industry.
She instantly jumped at the chance to be part of the repair mission. Though trained to survive in a zero-gravity environment, she has never had chance to put her skills to the test. And the whole enterprise seemed like the perfect way to add another gold star to her list of academic achievements. She signed up - and, naturally, she always gets what she wants.
On a more personal level, she does not maintain close contact with her family. Her mother and father are both doctors and were disappointed that their daughter didn't follow in their footsteps, despite her huge salary and obvious success. They never hid this fact from her and affection was very rare in the Looperson household; arguably leading to Cara developing obsessive tendencies, such as a need to succeed and a discomfort with displays of emotion. 
She is the personification of 'all work and no play'.

2 salvaged items from the ship:
(Assuming she's already wearing a space-suit, etc), a small rock with a common fossil imprinted in it - of sentimental value, representing one of her "first scientific discoveries" when she around 10 - and her tool kit for working on delicate equipment. She was using it when the alarm sounded and so merely scooped it up and took it with her. 

Other information:
Though she doesn't show it, she sees the mission failure as her fault - after all, she helped design the space-craft.