Today
NASA has picked 4 women and 4 men for a travel to new destinations in the solar system such as an asteroid and then Mars. The new
astronauts are:
Josh A. Cassada, Ph. D., 39, is originally from White Bear Lake, Minn. Cassada
is a former naval aviator who holds an undergraduate degree from Albion College,
and advanced degrees from the University of Rochester, N.Y. Cassada is a
physicist by training and currently is serving as co-founder and Chief
Technology Officer for Quantum Opus.
Victor J. Glover, 37, Lt.
Commander, U.S. Navy, hails from Pomona, Calif., and Prosper, Texas. He is an
F/A-18 pilot and graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. Glover holds
degrees from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Calif.;
Air University and Naval Postgraduate School. He currently is serving as a Navy
Legislative Fellow in the U.S. Congress.
Tyler N. Hague (Nick), 37, Lt.
Colonel, U.S. Air Force, calls Hoxie, Kan., home. He is a graduate of the U.S.
Air Force Academy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the U.S. Air Force
Test Pilot School, Edwards, Calif. Hague currently is supporting the Department
of Defense as Deputy Chief of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat
Organization.
Christina M. Hammock, 34, calls Jacksonville, N.C. home.
Hammock holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, N.C. She currently is serving as National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Station Chief in American Samoa.
Nicole Aunapu Mann, 35, Major, U.S. Marine Corps, originally is from
Penngrove, Calif. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Stanford (Calif.)
University and the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, Patuxent River, Md. Mann is an
F/A 18 pilot, currently serving as an Integrated Product Team Lead at the U.S.
Naval Air Station, Patuxent River.
Anne C. McClain, 34, Major, U.S.
Army, lists her hometown as Spokane, Wash. She is a graduate of the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.; the University of Bath and the University
of Bristol, both in the United Kingdom. McClain is an OH-58 helicopter pilot,
and a recent graduate of U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station,
Patuxent River.
Jessica U. Meir, Ph.D., 35 is from Caribou, Maine. She
is a graduate of Brown University, has an advanced degree from the International
Space University, and earned her doctorate from Scripps Institution of
Oceanography. Meir currently is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard
Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Andrew R.
Morgan, M.D., 37, Major, U.S. Army, considers New Castle, Pa., home. Morgan is a
graduate of The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and earned doctorate in
medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences,
Bethesda, Md. He has experience as an emergency physician and flight surgeon for
the Army special operations community, and currently is completing a sports
medicine fellowship
