NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli: Crew-7 Spacewalk Training for First Spaceflight

NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli: Crew-7 Spacewalk Training for First Spaceflight

Crew-7 astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli is suited up in the Space Station Airlock Vacuum Chamber, or SSATA as part of her mission training

Moghbeli is lowered into the water of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory as part of spacewalk training

Moghbeli is suited up before going into the water of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory

These are views of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli during her spacewalk and spacesuit training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Moghbeli will be the spacecraft commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission—the agency’s seventh rotational mission to the International Space Station. Moghbeli is a naval aviator, test pilot, and aerospace engineer. This will be the first spaceflight for Moghbeli, who became a NASA astronaut in 2017.

Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli Official NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jasmin-moghbeli

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jasmin-moghbeli/biography

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli will join European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia, and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). 

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than mid-August 2023 for the launch of Crew-7, aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four astronauts will join an expedition crew aboard the International Space Station.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Robert Markowitz/James Blair

Image Dates: Sept. 1, 2022-January 31, 2023

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