Jeanette Epps

Jeanette Jo Epps is an American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut. Epps received both her M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, where she was part of the rotor-craft research group and was a NASA GSRP Fellow. She was chosen for the 20th class of NASA astronauts in 2009, graduating in 2011. Epps currently serves as a member of the ISS Operations Branch and has completed analog astronaut missions, including NEEMO 18 and CAVES 19. She is the second woman and first African-American woman to have participated in CAVES. She is currently in space for a long duration mission on the ISS, after launch in 4 March 2024, as part of the SpaceX Crew-8 crew.

3 November 1970

Born on the same birth date (3 November 1970): Doug Zmolek • Geir Frigård

Born on the same birth day (3 November): Alfonso Orueta • Alison Williamson • Dave Hahn • Dwight Yorke • Gemma Ward • Greg Plitt • Joyce Jonathan • Marc Breaux • Martin Cruz Smith • Massimo Mongai • Peggy McCay • Rezső Seress • William George Barker

Born in the same month (November 1970): Alexander Kvitashvili • Brendan Benson • Danny Hoch • David Wesley • Diana King • Domino (producer) • Geoffrey Keezer • Ilija Aračić • Jack Ingram • Larry Joe Campbell • Logan Mader • Marc Rosset • Matt Blunt • Mike Epps • Morgan Spurlock • Nelson Diebel • Phife Dawg • Sergei Ovchinnikov (footballer, born 1970) • Stel Pavlou • Susan Tedeschi • Toma Enache