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Jeanette Epps KF5QNU joins Starliner mission to ISS

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 02:46 PM PDT https://amsat-uk.org/2020/08/25/jeanette-epps-kf5qnu-joins-starliner-mission-to-iss/

Astronaut Jeanette Epps KF5QNU

Astronaut and radio amateur Jeanette Epps KF5QNU has joined the Boeing
CST-100 Starliner-1 crew for a mission to the International Space Station.
ISS astronaut Sunita Williams KD5PLB answers questions from a student using amateur radio

She joins fellow crew members Sunita Williams KD5PLB and Josh Cassada
KI5CRH on the first operational crewed flight of Starliner. The six-month expedition is planned to launch to the ISS in 2021 following NASA
certification after a successful uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 and Crew
Flight Test with astronauts.

While earning her doctorate, Epps was a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Project fellow, authoring several journal and conference articles on her research. After completing graduate school, she worked in a research
laboratory for more than two years, co-authoring several patents, before
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recruited her. She spent seven years
as a CIA technical intelligence officer before her selection as a member of
the 2009 astronaut class.

NASA assigned Williams and Cassada to the Starliner-1 mission in August
2018. The spaceflight will be the first for Cassada and third for Williams,
who spent long-duration stays aboard the space station on Expeditions 14/15
and 32/33.

NASA press release

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronaut-jeanette-epps-joins-first-operational-boeing-crew-mission-to-space

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