NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps | Artemis Crewed Moon Landing Program Interview
Replay of live interviews with NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps from the Johnson Space Center with Syracuse, New York area media. Epps discusses NASA’s plans to put the first woman and next man on the Moon through the agency’s Artemis program and the significance of New York to the mission, as well as her recent experience with a CAVES underground expedition for astronaut training. The interviews were conducted on October 4, 2019.
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
CAVES Underground Expeditions for Astronaut Training
The Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising Human Behavior and Performance Skills (CAVES) expedition is a simulation of a space mission and an extreme training session, which is held four kilometers underground, in a cave. This one-week underground adventure was designed by the European Space Agency (ESA) to train astronauts to live and work together as a team.
Through Artemis, NASA aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, heralding a new era for space exploration and utilization.
Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 19 minutes
Release Date: Oct. 4, 2019
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