NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins will command the four-member Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station, scheduled to launch in September 2026.
Watkins, selected by NASA in 2017, previously flew on the SpaceX Crew-4 mission in 2022, spending 170 days aboard the station. With the upcoming flight, she is expected to become the first NASA astronaut to launch twice aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
A Colorado native, Watkins holds a bachelor’s degree in geological and environmental sciences from Stanford University and a doctorate in geology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She previously worked on the Mars Curiosity rover science team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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