Jessica Wittner is getting some deserved time off — just a day or so to decompress with family before jumping back into the work of being one of NASA’s newest astronauts. “I’m filled with excitement and energy right now,” Wittner told The Bee in a phone interview Tuesday, following a graduation ceremony at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
This is the dream scenario for the Clovis native and Buchanan High School graduate.
She was 12 when she first verbalized wanting to be an astronaut. She joined the U.S. Navy after graduation and became an aviation mechanic. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Arizona and a master’s degree from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
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