NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli Prepares for First Spaceflight

NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli Prepares for First Spaceflight

Official portrait of NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli poses for a portrait in the Blue Flight Control Room at Johnson Space Center

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli wears a spacesuit prior to underwater spacewalk training at NASA Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli is helped into a spacesuit prior to underwater spacewalk training

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli wears a Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment prior to underwater spacewalk training. The cooling garment runs water throughout the suit to keep her cool during training.

These are portraits and views of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli during her astronaut training. 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 and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). An additional crew member will be assigned at a later date.

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 Credits: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Bill Stafford/Bill Ingalls/Josh Valcarcel

Image Capture Dates: 2017-2020

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