Long-standing Rookie Astronaut Epps Reassigned To SpaceX Crew-8

Irene Klotz August 04, 2023

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 crewmembers. 

Credit: NASA
NASA has reassigned astronaut Jeannette Epps, who has been awaiting a spaceflight since joining the astronaut corps in 2009, to the SpaceX Crew-8 mission, slated for early 2024. Epps was previously assigned to fly on the first operational mission of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner. But the program is...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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