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01-19-2018, 11:01 AM
Astronaut expected to be the 1st African-American Space Station crewmember won't fly in 2018 after all
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Jeanette Epps, who was set to become the first-ever African-American astronaut to be a crewmember on the International Space Station, will not fly to space in 2018 as scheduled, NASA announced late Thursday.*
It's not clear why Epps was reassigned from her flight. The decision pulls her from her slated mission, which was expected to launch in June.*
"A number of factors are considered when making flight assignments; these decisions are personnel matters for which NASA doesn’t provide information," NASA spokesperson Brandi Dean said via email.
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Jeanette Epps, who was set to become the first-ever African-American astronaut to be a crewmember on the International Space Station, will not fly to space in 2018 as scheduled, NASA announced late Thursday.*
It's not clear why Epps was reassigned from her flight. The decision pulls her from her slated mission, which was expected to launch in June.*
"A number of factors are considered when making flight assignments; these decisions are personnel matters for which NASA doesn’t provide information," NASA spokesperson Brandi Dean said via email.
SEE ALSO: NASA's first African-American Space Station crewmember is your new role model (http://mashable.com/2017/01/05/nasa-astronaut-jeanette-epps-space-station-crew/?utm_campaign&utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/18/jeanette-epps-nasa-space-station-reassignment/)
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