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Australian Space Agency astronaut candidate. Training alongside 2022 ESA Astronaut Group. [32] 23 Mariam Fardous: 1984 Saudi Arabia: Saudi Astronaut Group 1, selected as Axiom Mission 2 backup, February 12, 2023. [33] 24 Nichole Ayers: 1988/1989 United States: NASA Astronaut Group 23: 25 Christina Birch: November 17, 1986 United States: NASA ...
In December 2021, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin announced she would fly on an "American commercial spacecraft" in September 2022, while a NASA astronaut would take her seat on Soyuz making her the first Russian cosmonaut to fly a Crew Dragon and the first Roscosmos cosmonaut to fly aboard a U.S. spacecraft since 2002. [3]
Wang Yaping became the second Chinese female astronaut as a member of the Shenzhou 10 spaceship crew, which orbited the Earth in June 2013, and of the Tiangong-1 orbiting space station with which it docked. In October 2021, Wang again flew on Shenzhou 13 where she became the first Chinese female astronaut to perform a spacewalk.
NASA on Monday named the first woman and the first African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission, introducing them as part of the four-member team chosen to fly as early as next ...
Two Nasa astronauts participated in a rare all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday morning (1 November). Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara exited the ISS in ...
Jessica Andrea Watkins (born May 14, 1988) is an American NASA astronaut, geologist, aquanaut and former international rugby player. Watkins was announced as the first Black woman who completed an International Space Station long-term mission in April 2022.
The role of women in and affiliated with NASA has varied over time. As early as 1922 women were working as physicists and in other technical positions. [1] Throughout the 1930s to the present, more women joined the NASA teams not only at Langley Memorial, but at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Glenn Research Center, and other numerous NASA sites throughout the United States. [2]
The class of 1996, the 16th group of NASA astronauts, was the largest selected since the first class of Space Shuttle astronauts in 1978, which also numbered 35. They were ordered to report for duty at Johnson Space Center to commence their astronaut training on August 12, 1996. [2] [28] They were joined by nine international astronauts. [29]