Commander
Reid Wiseman
Birthplace
Baltimore, Maryland
Selected
2009 by NASA
Fun Fact
The Artemis II crew proposed naming a lunar crater after Reid's late wife Carroll, continuing an Apollo-era tradition of honouring loved ones on the Moon.
Biography
Reid Wiseman is a retired U.S. Navy Captain and 27-year Navy veteran from Baltimore, Maryland. Commissioned through ROTC in 1997, he became a Naval Aviator in 1999 and flew F-14 Tomcats on two Middle East deployments supporting Operations Southern Watch, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom. He attended the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in 2004, worked on F-35 and F-18 programs, and later commanded Strike Fighter Squadron 103 flying the FA-18F Super Hornet. Selected as a NASA astronaut in June 2009, he completed training in May 2011 and served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 2020 through 2022. His late wife, Carroll, was a neonatal intensive care nurse. He considers his time as a single parent his greatest challenge and the most rewarding phase of his life.
Education
B.S. Computer and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1997)
M.S. Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (2006)
Certificate, Space Systems, US Naval Postgraduate School (2008)
Missions
Expedition 40/41
2014165-day ISS mission completing over 300 scientific experiments and nearly 13 hours of spacewalk time across two EVAs.
Artemis II
2026Commander of the first crewed lunar flyby in over 50 years. 10-day mission aboard Orion spacecraft.
