Astronaut expected to be the 1st African-American Space Station crewmember won't fly
 

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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