Garrett Reisman
Garrett Reisman · Exploration & Discovery
First Jewish crew member of the International Space Station; three spacewalks, later director of crew operations at SpaceX.
10 February 1968, Morristown, New Jersey, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States
Garrett Reisman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Exploration & Discovery — First Jewish crew member of the International Space Station; three spacewalks, later director of crew operations at SpaceX.
Origins and early life
Garrett Reisman was born in Morristown, New Jersey, to a Jewish family — the plain, sourced statement this card rests on — and grew up in Parsippany. He took a dual degree in economics and mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, then a doctorate at Caltech in 1997, sharing an adviser with Bob Behnken, alongside whom he would later fly.
Work and career
Before space came the sea: fourteen days on the floor of the Atlantic in the Aquarius laboratory for NEEMO 5 in 2003. He launched on STS-123 on 11 March 2008, stayed aboard the International Space Station as flight engineer through parts of Expeditions 16 and 17, and came home on STS-124 on 14 June — the first Jewish crew member the station had had. From orbit that May he sent a greeting to the people of Israel for the country's sixtieth Independence Day.
He flew again on STS-132 in May 2010 and walked outside twice more. In 2011 he joined SpaceX, rising to director of crew operations, work that helped put astronauts back in American spacecraft; since 2018 he has taught human spaceflight at the University of Southern California. He is also the astronaut who proved, in the empty Kibo module, that a human being cannot swim in weightlessness.
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First Jewish crew member of the International Space Station; three spacewalks, later director of crew operations at SpaceX.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Reisman
