and Watkins — have been selected to join NASA's astronaut corps but have not yet flown to space.
Epps is slated to fly with Boeing's Starliner astronaut capsule to the space station. While she was chosen for the mission, calledWith this mission, Watkins will launch alongside NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Robert Hines as well as European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. As part of her mission, she will observe and photograph geological features on Earth, she told NPR.
"We can look through the windows and take awesome pictures. And it allows us to track changes over time and to see features that we're not able to see from other assets that we have," Watkins said. She will also, along with her crewmates, conduct a variety of science experiments in the fields of Earth and space science, biological science and even human physiology. As she told NPR, part of a mission like this involves the astronauts studying themselves."We kind of become the lab rats ourselves ... to help us learn about the effects of long-duration spaceflight on humans, the physical effects, as well as the cognitive effects," she said.
"We are all coming together to accomplish this really hard thing that none of us would be able to do on our own," Watkins told NPR."I think that is just such a beautiful picture of what we can all do if we come together and put all of our resources and skill sets together."
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