Marcos Berríos

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

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This Air Force test pilot holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and a doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

An experienced pilot, Berríos has accumulated more than 110 combat missions and 1,300 hours of flight time in more than 21 different aircraft.

Berríos began his career as an aerospace engineer for the U.S. Army Aviation Development Directorate at Moffett Field, California, in 2011. His research focused on understanding the dynamic behavior of using two helicopters to carry a single external load and the associated flight control challenges.

(6 December 2021) NASA Astronaut Candidate Marcos Berrios, 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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Marcos Berríos

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(6 December 2021) Marcos Berríos, 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)