Andre Douglas

Andre Douglas is an American systems engineer and NASA astronaut.

[1] Douglas served in the U.S. Coast Guard as a naval architect, salvage engineer, damage control assistant, and officer of the deck.

He most recently was a senior staff member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, working on maritime robotics, planetary defense, and space exploration missions for NASA.

[2] On December 6, 2021, he was revealed to be one of the 10 candidates selected in the 2021 NASA Astronaut Group 23.

[3] On July 3, 2024, Douglas was announced to be the backup for the three NASA astronauts of the Artemis II mission, which is currently planned to perform a flyby of the Moon no earlier than April 2026.