Reid Wiseman

Reid Wiseman is a United States Navy captain, test pilot and retired NASA astronaut. He first flew on Soyuz TMA-13M in 2014, spending about five months on the International Space Station during Expedition 40 and Expedition 41. NASA made him the 17th chief of the Astronaut Office, a post he held from 2020 to 2022. He then commanded Artemis II, the 2026 lunar flyby, the first crewed flight around the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. In October 2026 he was named associate vice president of Caltech and deputy director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Born: 11 November 1975
Country: United States
Flights: 2: Soyuz TMA-13M (2014), Artemis II (2026)
Time in space: 165 days 8 hours
Stations visited: International Space Station, as part of Expedition 40, Expedition 41

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

Events

Artemis II
- Orion, SLS
- Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen
Artemis II was the first crewed flight of the Artemis programme and the first time people had flown to the Moon since Apollo 17. Orion Integrity was the first crewed spacecraft to fly on the Space Launch System.
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- Everyday Astronaut
- NASA