Nilofer Ramji

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Next up, our two mission specialists.

Francisco Frank Rubio is a U.S.

Army colonel, physician, and NASA astronaut.

Rubio holds the American record for the longest single spaceflight, 371 days aboard the space station having flown on the Soyuz MS-22 and 23 during Expeditions 67 through 69.

A veteran UH-60 Black Hawk pilot with over 1,100 flight hours and over 600 combat hours in Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Rubio later earned his MD and served as a flight surgeon before joining NASA's 2017 astronaut class.

On his mission, he performed three spacewalks, totaling 21 hours and 24 minutes, and contributed to critical long-duration space medicine and station maintenance experiments.

Last but certainly not least, our fourth crew member, Andre Douglas.

He's a U.S.

Coast Guard Reserve Commander and a versatile systems engineer from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.

His Coast Guard time included search and rescue operations, ship salvage response, and drug interdiction missions.

While with Hopkins, he worked space exploration design and test missions, nuclear ballistic missile defense, and multi-domain autonomous systems development.

This is his first flight assignment, but he's no stranger to Artemis.