Svenska astronauten tar med gosedjur till rymden
När astronauten Jessica Meir, som har både svenskt och amerikanskt medborgarskap, återvänder till den internationella rymdstationen ISS den kommande veckan så kommer hon ha med sig ett gosedjur i form av en kanin. Det rapporterar AFP.
Kramdjuret tillhör egentligen Meirs treåriga dotter.
– Hon har två stycken, en blir kvar med henne där nere och den andra följer med oss på våra äventyr, säger Meir till nyhetsbyrån.
Svensk-amerikanskan ingår i den besättning om fyra som väntas inleda resan med en Space X Falcon 9-raket med start på onsdag.
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Jessica Meir
Wikipedia (en)
Jessica Ulrika Meir (IPA: ; meer; born (1977-07-01)July 1, 1977) is an American NASA astronaut, marine biologist, and physiologist. She was previously an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, following postdoctoral research in comparative physiology at the University of British Columbia. She has studied the diving physiology and behavior of emperor penguins in Antarctica, and the physiology of bar-headed geese, which are able to migrate over the Himalayas. In September 2002, Meir served as an aquanaut on the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 4 (NEEMO 4) crew. In 2013, she was selected by NASA to Astronaut Group 21. In 2016, Meir participated in ESA CAVES, a training course in which international astronauts train in a space-analogue cave environment. Meir launched on September 25, 2019, to the ISS onboard Soyuz MS-15, where she served as a flight engineer during Expedition 61 and 62. On October 18, 2019, Meir and Christina Koch were the first women to participate in an all-female spacewalk.
Meir was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
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