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NASA Astronaut Jessica Watkins partner: Is she married?

Jessica Watkins was selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. She has worked at NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was a science team collaborator for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity.

As a graduate research fellow at UCLA, Watkins studied Mars surface processes, focusing her Ph.D. research on the emplacement mechanisms of large landslides on Mars and Earth through orbital image and spectral data analysis, geologic mapping, and fieldwork.

NASA Astronaut Jessica Watkins’s partner: Is she married?

The NASA astronaut appears to be unmarried and single. Watkins served as a mission specialist on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station, which concluded on Oct. 14, 2022.

Graduated from Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado. Earned a Bachelor of Science in Geology and environmental sciences from Stanford University in Stanford, California. Earned a Doctorate in geology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Watkins completed her first spaceflight as a mission specialist on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission (April 27 – Oct. 14, 2022), having logged a total of 170 days in space over her two increments, Expedition 67 and 68.

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Update: 2024-05-21