NASA Assigns Astronaut Deniz Burnham to First Space Station Mission

NASA reports that astronaut Deniz Burnham, a former oil-rig operations engineer, will launch to the International Space Station in March twenty twenty-seven aboard a Soyuz spacecraft with cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Konstantin Borisov. She'll serve as flight engineer for Expedition 76, spending about seven months conducting scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future missions to the Moon and Mars.

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