Jasmin Moghbeli | |
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| Born | (1983-06-24)June 24, 1983 (age 42) |
| Education | |
| Spouse | Sam Wald |
| Children | 2 |
| Space career | |
| NASA astronaut | |
| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel,USMC |
Time in space | 199 days, 2 hours and 20 minutes |
| Selection | NASA Group 22 (2017) |
TotalEVAs | 1 |
Total EVA time | 6h 42m |
| Missions | SpaceX Crew-7 (Expedition 69/70) |
Mission insignia |    |
Jasmin Moghbeli (born June 24, 1983) is an AmericanU.S. Marine Corps test pilot andNASA astronaut. She is a graduate of theMassachusetts Institute of Technology,Naval Postgraduate School, andNaval Test Pilot School. Moghbeli was a mission commander forSpaceX Crew-7 and aflight engineer aboard theInternational Space Station forExpedition 69/70.[1]
Jasmin Moghbeli was born inBad Nauheim,West Germany on June 24, 1983.[2][3][4]
Her father, Kamran (Kamy) Moghbeli, was an architect who immigrated to Germany in 1980 from Tehran, Iran.[5] He and his family lived in Bad Nauheim, where Jasmin was born, until the beginning of 1984 when they immigrated to the United States.[6] Her mother is Fereshta (Fery) Moghbeli.[5] Moghbeli has an older brother,[7] Kaveh, specialist in pulmonary and intensive care medicine.[6]Moghbeli speaksPersian,[8] English, and learned Russian during her astronaut training.[9][10]
Moghbeli attendedBaldwin Senior High School inNew York.[11] She earned abachelor's degree inaerospace engineering withinformation technology at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and played volleyball, lacrosse, and basketball for theMIT Engineers.[12][13][14][15]
Moghbeli was commissioned as anofficer in theUnited States Marine Corps in 2005, and trained to become anAH-1 Super Cobra pilot.[12] While in service with the Marine Corps, she deployed overseas three times and completed 150 combat missions. Moghbeli received amaster's degree inaerospace engineering from theU.S. Naval Postgraduate School inCalifornia. She attended theU.S. Naval Test Pilot School atPatuxent River Naval Air Station inMaryland, becoming a helicopter test pilot withVMX-1 atMarine Corps Air Station Yuma inArizona.[13]
As of 2019[update], she has accumulated over 2,000 hours of flight time and flown in 150 combat missions, includingsorties inAfghanistan.[12]
In June 2017, Moghbeli was selected as a member ofNASA Astronaut Group 22, and subsequently began her two-year training.[16]
In January 2020, she graduated alongside 13 others in theNASA Astronaut Candidate Training Program, officially making her "eligible for spaceflight, including assignments to theInternational Space Station,Artemis missions to theMoon, and ultimately, missions toMars".[17]
In March 2022, she was assigned as commander of theSpaceX Crew-7 mission to theInternational Space Station. The mission, her first flight in space, launched to the space station on August 26, 2023.[18] On March 12, 2024, the mission landed off the coast of Florida after spending 199 days in space and orbiting Earth 3,184 times.[19]
On September 2025 moghbeli participated in theESA CAVES 2025 course held in the Matese mountains in the Italian Apennines.
Moghbeli is married to Sam Wald. They are the parents of twin girls.[20] Wald is Jewish,[21] and they celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah at home; Moghbeli celebrated Hanukkah in space as well.[22]
She is proud of her American and Persian heritage, noting: "Reflecting on this past year, I stand here so proud of my Persian heritage but also incredibly proud to be an American."[8] She still celebratesNowruz (Persian New Year).[8][23]
Space exploration was an aspiration for Moghbeli as a child. During school, she wrote a sixth-grade book report on the first woman in space, Soviet cosmonautValentina Tereshkova.[24]
Moghbeli has received fourAir Medals, aNavy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, and threeNavy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals. She has also received theU.S. Navy Test Pilot School Class 144 Outstanding Developmental Phase II Award and the CommanderWillie McCool Outstanding Student Award as the Class 144 Honor Graduate.[12]
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