NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Assigned to International Space Station Mission

NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Assigned to International Space Station Mission

Portrait of NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Crew Portrait (from left to right): Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Alexander Grebenkin (Russia), NASA astronaut & Pilot Michael Barratt, NASA astronaut Commander Matthew Dominick, and Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps, will join Expedition 70 and 71 crew members aboard the International Space Station

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps trains in a U.S. spacesuit at NASA's Johnson Space Center

NASA astronaut Jeanette in ISS EVA Prep & Post #2 training in the ISS Airlock mockup at Johnson Space Center with JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata (Japan)

NASA astronaut Jeanette in ISS EVA Prep & Post #2 training in the ISS Airlock mockup at Johnson Space Center

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps, a crew member for Boeing’s Starliner-1 mission, arrives aboard a T-38 jet aircraft at the Launch and Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center

Astronaut Jeanette Epps of NASA was a backup crew member for Expedition 54-55

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 54-55 backup crewmembers Jeanette Epps of NASA (left), Sergey Prokopyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (right)

Four crew members are now assigned to launch on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station, including Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps. She will join Expedition 70 and 71 crew members aboard the station in early 2024 to conduct a wide-ranging set of operational and research activities.

This also will be Epps’ first trip to the International Space Station. She is from Syracuse, New York, and earned a bachelor’s in physics from LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York, and a master’s in science and a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to joining NASA, she worked at Ford Motor Company and the Central Intelligence Agency. She was selected as an astronaut in July 2009, and has served on the Generic Joint Operation Panel working on space station crew efficiency, as a crew support astronaut for two expeditions, and as lead capsule communicator in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Epps previously was assigned to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission. NASA reassigned Epps to allow Boeing time to complete development of Starliner while also continuing plans for astronauts to gain spaceflight experience for future mission needs.

NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Official NASA Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jeanette-j-epps

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jeanette-j-epps/biography

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Image Credits: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Robert Markowitz/James Blair/Kim Shiflett/Elizabeth Weissinger

Image Dates: 2009-2023

Release Date: Aug. 4, 2023

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