Others in the class include Nichole Ayers, 32, an Air Force commander and Colorado native and one of the few women currently flying the F-22 Raptor fighter jet; Marcos Berríos, 37, a major in the Air Force who grew up in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico; Christina Birch, 35, a native of Gilbert, Ariz., Who has a doctorate in biological engineering from MIT; Deniz Burnham, 36, Navy Lieutenant, of Wasilla, Alaska, with on-site drilling project management on his resume; Andre Douglas, 35, a Virginia native with multiple master’s and doctorate degrees in systems engineering who recently worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on maritime robotics, planetary defense, and space exploration missions for NASA; Jack Hathaway, 39, Navy commander and pilot and a Connecticut native; Anil Menon, 45, a Minneapolis-raised Air Force lieutenant colonel and SpaceX’s first flight surgeon during NASA’s Demo-2 mission; Christopher Williams, 38, of Potomac, Maryland, with a doctorate in physics from MIT; and Jessica Wittner, 38, Navy lieutenant commander and native of California.
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