{"id":60124,"date":"2018-01-21T18:21:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/nasa-removes-us-astronaut-from-iss-mission-5\/"},"modified":"2018-01-21T18:21:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:21:27","slug":"nasa-removes-us-astronaut-from-iss-mission-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/nasa-removes-us-astronaut-from-iss-mission-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa removes US astronaut from ISS mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US astronaut Jeanette Epps has been removed from her upcoming mission to the International Space Station (ISS) just months before launch.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Epps was to have been the first African-American astronaut assigned to the space station crew.<\/p>\n<p>She would have flown aboard a Russian Soyuz flight in June but is being replaced by another astronaut.<\/p>\n<p>Nasa has not given a reason for withdrawing her but says she will be considered for future missions.<\/p>\n<p>Jeanette Epps, born in Syracuse, completed a doctorate in aerospace engineering in 2000. After graduating, she worked in a laboratory for two years before being recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).<\/p>\n<p>She worked as a technical intelligence officer for seven years before being selected as a member of Nasa&#039;s 2009 astronaut class. Her time with the CIA included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elleuk.com\/life-and-culture\/the-collective\/longform\/a34324\/my-story-the-collective-jeanette-epps-space-travel-nasa\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">deployments to Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Elle magazine last year, Dr Epps said: &quot;I get very excited when I think about being up in space, partly because I compare it to going into a war zone. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Both are very dangerous but, for me, it&#039;s a no-brainer: I would rather face the dangers in space than go back to a war zone.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>She added: &quot;When people come back from space, I see how much they want to go again.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Epps was due to launch to the orbiting outpost from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, along with the German European Space Agency (Esa) astronaut Alexander Gerst and the flight&#039;s commander, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Prokopev.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nasa offered no reason for the decision to remove her from the Expedition 56\/57 mission. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-announces-updated-crew-assignments-for-space-station-missions\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">In a statement, they said she would &quot;return to Nasa&#039;s Johnson Space Center in Houston<\/a> to assume duties in the Astronaut Office&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Her replacement, Serena Au\u00f1\u00f3n-Chancellor, is a medical doctor from Fort Collins, Colorado. Dr Au\u00f1\u00f3n-Chancellor previously spent more than nine months in Russia supporting medical operations for space station crew members.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-42747272\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p> [contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/is3.mzstatic.com\/image\/thumb\/Purple118\/v4\/4c\/2c\/a9\/4c2ca936-441b-0a48-179b-40c734137d04\/source\/175x175bb.jpg\"\/> <\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a><\/h5>\n<p> [contfnewc] [contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US astronaut Jeanette Epps has been removed from her upc..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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