Jasmin Moghbeli

Jasmin Moghbeli (born June 24, 1983) is an American U.S. Marine Corps test pilot and NASA astronaut.

Moghbeli was a mission commander for SpaceX Crew-7 and a flight engineer aboard the International Space Station for Expedition 69/70.

[12][13][14][15] Moghbeli was commissioned as an officer in the United States Marine Corps in 2005, and trained to become an AH-1 Super Cobra pilot.

[13] As of 2019[update], she has accumulated over 2,000 hours of flight time and flown in 150 combat missions, including sorties in Afghanistan.

[12] In June 2017, Moghbeli was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 22, and subsequently began her two-year training.

During school, she wrote a sixth-grade book report on the first woman in space, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.

NASA interviews with Jasmin Moghbeli
Moghbeli pictured with a Bell AH-1Z Viper in 2017