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

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

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli can be seen training at SpaceX headquarters with her Crew-7 colleagues European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen (center) and behind him astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

These are portraits and views of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli during her training with SpaceX. 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 Credit: SpaceX

Image Capture Dates: April 19-June 2, 2023

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