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Forum: Commercial Space - Military Space
Topic: SpaceX's Crew Dragon Crew-4 mission

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 11-16-2021 02:30 PM NASA release <blockquote><font size="+0">[b]NASA Assigns Astronaut Jessica Watkins to NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 Mission[/b]</font> NASA has assigned astronaut [URL=https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jessica-watkins]Jessica Watkins[/URL] to serve as a mission specialist on the agency's upcoming SpaceX Crew-4 mission, the fourth crew rotation flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_crew4b-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_crew4b.jpg" width="400" height="250" border="0"></a></center> This will be Watkins' first trip to space following her selection as an astronaut in 2017. Watkins joins NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Robert Hines, as well as ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, as a crew member for the Crew-4 mission. NASA previously announced the assignments of Lindgren and Hines as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, in February, and ESA announced Cristoforetti as a mission specialist for the mission in May. Crew-4 is scheduled to launch in April 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a six-month science mission aboard the microgravity laboratory. Watkins was born in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and considers Lafayette, Colorado, her hometown. She earned a bachelor's degree in geological and environmental sciences from Stanford University and a doctorate in geology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Watkins conducted her graduate research on the emplacement mechanisms of large landslides on Mars and Earth. She began her career at NASA as an intern and has worked at the agency's Ames Research Center in California and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. At the time of her astronaut selection, Watkins was a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, where she collaborated as a member of the Science Team for the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity.</blockquote>
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