Jessica Meir
Will Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir be NASA's first woman on the moon?
No. 23 on The Jerusalem Post's Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2022: Pioneering NASA astronaut Jessica Meir.
Jewish-American astronaut Jessica Meir addresses TAU
Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir wants to be the first woman on the moon
Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir talks about her experience with Ilan Ramon
Coronavirus causes detour on astronaut Jessica Meir's return home
A capsule carrying Morgan, Meir and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka touched down southeast of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan at 1117 local time, as scheduled.
Jessica Meir prepares to return to Earth: It will be hard not to hug
“I think that I will actually feel more isolated on the Earth than I did up here because that’s just part of our expected routine up here,” Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir said.
Jessica Meir offers isolation advice from the International Space Station
Meir spoke on Friday from the International Space Station, where she has lived since late September with a handful of other astronauts.
Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir posts photo of Tel Aviv taken from space
The usually bustling Israeli city is seen looking desolate amid the spread of the coronavirus.
NASA astronaut returning to Earth after her record space station mission
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir's spacewalk last October marked the first time two women stepped out of the space station at the same time.
‘Happy Hanukkah from space,’ Jessica Meir says wearing menorah socks
Meir, the daughter of an Israeli doctor who moved to Sweden and later to the US, joined the ISS crew in September. Two weeks later, she participated in the first all-female spacewalk.
Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir posted photos of Israel that she took from space
Meir’s late father was born in Iraq but immigrated with his family to prestate Israel as a young child, later fighting in the country’s War of Independence in 1948.
