Jessica Meir

Quotes

• “It might have had something to do with the fact that the stars shone so brightly in rural Maine.”
• “Here we are up in Caribou, which is my home as well as yours, but when you think about your home, you usually think about your house, your neighborhood, and your family, and when you look at this fragile blue ball from outer space, that’s home too. It’s everybody’s home.”
• “Mars has always captured the human imagination for decades and decades, it’s always been the planet that everyone’s looking toward. Knowing it’s out there, it’s what drives everything that we do.”
• “There’s no one path to becoming an astronaut. I think that’s one of the great things about the job these days. You know, originally, all of the astronauts were white male military test pilots. And now the program is much more diverse.”

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Key facts

Born

Jessica Ulrika Meir , ( 1977-07-01 ) July 1, 1977 (age 48) , Caribou, Maine , US

Citizenship

United States Sweden

Education

Brown University ( BS ) International Space University ( MS ) University of California, San Diego ( PhD )

Time in space

315 days, 5 hours, 34 minutes, (currently in space)

Selection

NASA Group 21 (2013)

Total eva time

28 hours, 46 minutes

Missions

Soyuz MS-15 ( Expedition 61 / 62 ) SpaceX Crew-12 ( Expedition 74 / 75 )

Fields

Marine biology comparative physiology

Institutions

Harvard Medical School NASA

Thesis

Blood Oxygen Transport and Depletion: The Key of Consummate Divers (2009)

Doctoral advisor

Paul Ponganis

Other academic advisors

Bill Milsom (postdoc), Gerald Kooyman

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Wikidata facts

Image

NASA Candidate Jessica U Meir.jpg

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