Houston, Texas (March 24) – On Thursday, former multi-sport student-athlete Jasmin Moghbeli '05 was selected by NASA to launch on NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station. Moghbeli and European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, for the mission. The mission is expected to launch no earlier than 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Moghbeli, Mogensen, and the additional mission specialists will join an expedition crew aboard the space station.
 
This will be the first spaceflight for Moghbeli, who became a NASA astronaut in 2017. During her time at MIT, she was a captain of the women's basketball team and was also a member of the women's lacrosse and women's volleyball teams. Moghbeli is from Baldwin, New York, and earned a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering before going on to receive a master's degree in aerospace engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School. As an AH-1W Super Cobra pilot and Marine Corps test pilot, she has flown more than 150 missions accruing 2,000 hours of flight time in more than 25 different aircraft. A U.S. Marine Corps major, Moghbeli also graduated with honors from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. At the time of her selection as an astronaut, she was testing H-1 helicopters and serving as the quality assurance and avionics officer for Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron 1. Moghbeli is also the proud mom of twin girls.
 
Moghbeli is a member of the first class of astronaut candidates to graduate under the Artemis program after completing two years of basic training in January 2020. Eleven months later, Moghbeli was among 18 astronauts selected by NASA to form the Artemis Team and help pave the way for the next astronaut missions on and around the Moon as part of the Artemis program. The agency's modern lunar exploration program will land the first woman and next man on the Moon in 2024 and establish a sustainable human lunar presence by the end of the decade.
 
You can follow Moghbeli's journey on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at @astrojaws.
 
More stories about Jasmin Moghbeli '05 on mitathletics.com:
- April 8, 2018: NCAA D3 Week "Where Are They Now": Jasmin Moghbeli '05
- January 16, 2020: Jasmin Moghbeli '05 Graduates From NASA Astronaut Candidate Training Program
- December 15, 2020: NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli '05 Named to Artemis Team
 
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