Jessica Meir
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Jessica Ulrika Meir is an American NASA astronaut, marine biologist, and physiologist. She was previously an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, following postdoctoral research in comparative physiology at the University of British Columbia. She has studied the diving physiology and behavior of emperor penguins in Antarctica, and the physiology of bar-headed geese, which are able to migrate over the Himalayas. In September 2002, Meir served as an aquanaut on the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 4 crew. In 2013, she was selected by NASA to Astronaut Group 21. In 2016, Meir participated in ESA CAVES, a training course in which international astronauts train in a space-analogue cave environment. Meir launched on September 25, 2019, to the ISS onboard Soyuz MS-15, where she served as a flight Engineer during Expedition 61 and 62. On October 18, 2019, Meir and Christina Koch were the first women to participate in an all-female spacewalk.
| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| class | orbit | Soyuz MS-15 | Andrew R. Morgan, Hazza Al Mansouri, Jessica Meir, Oleg Skripochka, Soyuz MS, human spaceflight, | Wikidata | |
| class | spaceflight | 2019 | Expedition 61 | Aleksandr Skvortsov, Andrew R. Morgan, Christina Koch, Jessica Meir, Luca Parmitano, Oleg Skripochka, expedition to the International Space Station, | Wikidata |
| class | spaceflight | 2020 | Expedition 62 | Anatoli Ivanishin, Andrew R. Morgan, Ivan Vagner, Jessica Meir, Oleg Skripochka, expedition to the International Space Station, | Wikidata |
| commons | image | Jessica Meir official portrait in an EMU (B&W) (cropped) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | ISS-62 crewmembers inside the Dragon | Commons | ||
| commons | image | ISS-61 Jessica Meir dines on fresh Mizuna mustard greens inside the Unity module | Commons | ||
| commons | image | ISS-62 Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir work inside the Destiny lab | Commons | ||
| commons | image | ISS-62 Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan work inside the Harmony module | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Jessica Meir full length portrait (1) (cropped) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Expedition 61 crew poster (cropped) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | ISS-61 Christina Koch and Jessica Meir practice robotics techniques inside the Cupola | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Portrait of NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir in an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (spacesuit). | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Portrait of NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir in an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (spacesuit). | Commons | ||











