Garrett E. Reisman

Reisman, born in Morristown, New Jersey, in 1968, is an engineer and former NASA astronaut. Selected in 1998, he launched aboard STS-123 in March 2008 and became a resident flight engineer on the International Space Station across Expeditions 16 and 17. He returned to Earth on STS-124 after roughly three months in orbit, and later flew STS-132 in 2010. Contemporary JTA reporting identified Reisman as the first Jewish astronaut to live aboard the ISS and recorded his Jewish heritage and Passover observance in space. American engineer and former NASA astronaut who served as an Expedition 16/17 flight engineer on the ISS. In Jewish World Records, Garrett E. Reisman is connected to the record “First Jewish Person to Live Aboard the International Space Station,” based on the stored achievement of March 2008 — Expedition 16/17 resident flight engineer.