Jessica Meir

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Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir shares photos of Israel captured from space
November 4, 2019
The 42-year-old is expected to stay on the International Space Station until the spring of 2020.
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir waves at the camera during a spacewalk with fellow NASA astronaut Christina Koch (out of frame). They ventured into the vacuum of space for seven hours and 17 minutes to swap a failed battery charge-discharge unit (BCDU) with a spare during the first all-woman spacewalk, Oct. 18, 2019. Credit: NASA via Wikimedia Commons.
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Jewish astronaut part of first female spacewalking team
October 18, 2019
Swedish-American-Israeli Jessica Meir became the fourth Jewish woman and 15th Jewish astronaut overall to be part of a space mission.
Jessica Meir in her official NASA portrait. Credit: Robert Markowitz/NASA.
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