Jessica Watkins joined NASA in 2017 is one of the Artemis astronauts who could fly to the moon.
, Watkins was selected to join NASA's 2017 astronaut class before reporting for astronaut training in August of that year. Watkins was one of 12 new NASA astronaut candidates selected out of over 18,300 applicants.
In her spare time, loves playing rugby, basketball and soccer. She also enjoys skiing, coaching, watching movies and writing. After high school, Watkins enrolled at Stanford University in California, where she earned a bachelor's degree in geological and environmental sciences. At Stanford, Watkins also played rugby, playing on national teams and even, in 2009, placing 3rd at the Rugby World Cup Sevens with the USA Eagles team. While her rugby career was a pretty serious one, Watkins also more casually plays soccer and enjoys rock climbing as well as skiing, writing and watching movies.
Watkins also participated in a number of analog space missions around this time. During her junior year at Stanford, in 2009, Watkins was a chief geologist for an analog mission with NASA at the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. Later, in 2011, she worked as a science operations team member for a NASA Desert Research and Technology Studies analog mission.
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