{"id":145,"date":"2021-05-17T01:58:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T01:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacetegan.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2022-07-29T17:10:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T17:10:18","slug":"kayla-barron-joins-nasas-spacex-crew-3-mission-to-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacetegan.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/kayla-barron-joins-nasas-spacex-crew-3-mission-to-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayla Barron Joins NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-3 Mission to Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacetegan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nhq201907120010_large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"985\" height=\"985\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacetegan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nhq201907120010_large.jpeg 985w, https:\/\/spacetegan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nhq201907120010_large-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spacetegan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nhq201907120010_large-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/spacetegan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nhq201907120010_large-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NASA astronaut candidate Kayla Barron poses for a portrait after donning her spacesuit, Friday, July 12, 2019 at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.<br \/>\nCredits: NASA\/Bill Ingalls<\/p>\n<p>Barron was born in Pocatello, Idaho, but considers Richland, Washington, her hometown. She earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in systems engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 2010. She earned a master\u2019s degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Cambridge, in England, in 2011, as Gates Cambridge Scholar. Lt. Cmdr. Barron earned her submarine warfare officer qualification and deployed three times while serving aboard the USS Maine. At the time of her selection as an astronaut candidate in 2017, she was serving as the flag aide to the superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy.<\/p>\n<p>Kayla Barron:<br \/>\nInstagram: @Astro_Kayla<br \/>\nFacebook: NASA Astronaut Kayla Barron<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Schierholz \/ Josh Finch<br \/>\nHeadquarters, Washington<\/p>\n<p>Courtney Beasley<br \/>\nJohnson Space Center, Houston<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/kayla-barron-joins-nasa-s-spacex-crew-3-mission-to-space-station\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacetegan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/clickheretoreadmorebutton.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut candidate Kayla Barron poses for a portrait after donning her spacesuit, Friday, July 12, 2019 at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,13,17,12,11,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-jupiter","9":"tag-mars","10":"tag-moon","11":"tag-nasa","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-venus"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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