Jessica Wittner

Jessica Wittner was selected by NASA to join the 2021 Astronaut Candidate Class and is currently undergoing two years of astronaut training.

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A California native, she holds a bachelor’s in aerospace engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and a master’s in aerospace engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.

Wittner was commissioned as a naval officer through an enlisted-to-officer commissioning program, and has served operationally flying F/A-18s with VFA-34 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and VFA-151 in Lemoore, California.

A graduate of U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, Wittner worked as a test pilot and project officer with VX-31 in China Lake, California.

(6 December 2021) NASA Astronaut Candidate Jessica Wittner, one of 10 new NASA astronaut candidates, was announced during an event Dec. 6, 2021, at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA’s new astronaut candidates will begin about two years of training in January 2022, after which they could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on Artemis missions to the Moon on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. (Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz)

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Jessica Wittner

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(6 December 2021) Jessica Wittner, one of 10 new NASA astronaut candidates, is seen during an announcement event Dec. 6, 2021, at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. (Credit: NASA/James Blair)