Serena Auñón

Serena Auñón-Chancellor

Country:	United States United States
Organization:	NASA
selected on	June 29, 2009 ( 20th NASA Group )
Calls:	1 space flight
Begin:	June 6, 2018
Landing:	20th December 2018
Time in space:	196d 17h 50min
Space flights
Soyuz MS-09 (2018) ISS expedition 56 ISS expedition 57

Serena Maria Auñón-Chancellor (born April 9, 1976 in Indianapolis , Indiana ) is an American astronaut .

Career

Auñón attended Poudre High School in Fort Collins , Colorado , where she graduated in 1993. She then studied Electrical Engineering at George Washington University in Washington, DC , where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1997 . In 2001 she received her PhD in medicine from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston . The next three years, she completed medical training in internal medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston .

Space activities

Auñón was selected as an astronaut in 2009 (NASA group 20) and participated in NASA's NEEMO 20 mission as an aquanaut in 2015 . On March 28, 2017, NASA announced that Auñón-Chancellor had been assigned to ISS Expeditions 58 and 59 . It was scheduled to take off for the ISS on the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft in November 2018 and work there until May 2019. In January 2018, however, she was brought forward to ISS expeditions 56 and 57 to replace Jeanette Epps , who had been removed from the team at short notice . On June 6, 2018, she set off for the ISS in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft together with Alexander Gerst and Commander Sergei Prokopjew . The return to earth took place on December 20, 2018.

Private

Auñón-Chancellor is the daughter of a Cuban exile who came to the United States in 1960. She is married and has a stepdaughter.

Web links

Commons : Serena Maria Auñón - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor on the NASA website - biography, pictures and videos (English; PDF)
spacefacts.de: Short biography

Individual evidence

↑ NASA: NASA Announces Upcoming International Space Station Crew Assignments. In: NASA Press Release 17-017. March 28, 2017, accessed March 29, 2017 .
↑ NASA: NASA Announces Updated Crew Assignments for Space Station Missions. In: NASA Press Release 18-004. January 18, 2018, accessed January 20, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Auñón, Serena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Auñón-Chancellor, Serena Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	Indianapolis , Indiana

[1] NASA: NASA Announces Upcoming International Space Station Crew Assignments. In: NASA Press Release 17-017. March 28, 2017, accessed March 29, 2017 .

[2] NASA: NASA Announces Updated Crew Assignments for Space Station Missions. In: NASA Press Release 18-004. January 18, 2018, accessed January 20, 2018 .