Jessica Meir is an American marine biologist and NASA astronaut who flew a long-duration mission to the International Space Station beginning in 2019. In October 2019 she and fellow astronaut Christina Koch performed the first all-female spacewalk in history, replacing a failed power component outside the station. Before joining NASA, Meir was a researcher studying animal physiology in extreme environments, including high-altitude bird flight and diving behavior in penguins, work that informed her later interest in human physiology in space.
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Sweden, nationality there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: United States, nationality there.
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1. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
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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.
2. Jessica Meir (Wikipedia)
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1977-07-01
Early life and career
was born on July 1, 1977
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is an American and Swedish marine biologist
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to the ISS onboard Soyuz MS-15
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