NASA has selected a central New York woman for a mission to space that will make her the first African-American woman to live on the International Space Station as a crew member. Syracuse native Jeanette Epps will serve as a flight engineer for a mission that’s scheduled to launch from Kazakhstan in May 2018.

NASA has selected a central New York woman for a mission to space that will make her the first African-American woman to work as a crew member on the International Space Station. Syracuse native Jeanette Epps will serve as a flight engineer for Expeditions 56 and 57, the first of which is scheduled to launch from Kazakhstan in May 2018.