Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jessica Meir |
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Birthdate | July 15, 1977 |
Birth Place | Maine |
Age (in 2024) | 47 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Astronaut |
Jessica Meir is best known as Astronaut who has born on July 15, 1977 in Maine. Currently, Jessica Meir is 47 years, 4 months and 6 days old. Jessica Meir will celebrate 48th birthday on Tuesday, 15th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Jessica Meir upcoming birthday.
Physiologist and Harvard professor who was accepted into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s astronaut program in 2013.
After earning a Master's degree from France's International Space University, she received a PhD in physiology from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California.
She conducted research on the physiology of northern elephant seals, emperor penguins, and bar-headed geese. She became a dual American and Swedish citizen, and was the second Swedish citizen in space, as well as the first Swedish female citizen in space.
She grew up in Caribou, Maine. She later attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She was born to a Swedish mother and an Israeli father.
Prior to becoming an astronaut, she worked as a NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) aquanaut. Fellow astronaut Thomas Marshburn also began his NASA career as a NEEMO aquanaut.
Jessica Meir is 47 years old today.
Jessica Meir was born on July 15, 1977 in Maine.
Jessica Meir zodiac sign is Cancer.
Jessica Meir was best known as Astronaut.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Jessica Meir's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1975 | Space Race: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. |
1979 | U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". |
1983 | An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured. |
1996 | A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. |
1998 | Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine. |
2002 | "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. |
2002 | The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life. |
2003 | AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. |
2006 | Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched. |
2009 | Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168. |
2012 | South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style. |
2014 | A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others. |
2016 | Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup. |
2018 | France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4-2. |
2021 | Three people are killed by a distracted driver in the 2021 Bowburn crash. |
1990 | The birth of Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Damian Lillard, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Tyler Young, American racing driver |
1991 | The birth of Danilo, Brazilian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Derrick Favors, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Evgeny Tishchenko, Russian boxer |
1991 | The birth of Nuria Párrizas DÃaz, Spanish tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Tobias Harris, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter |
1993 | The birth of HÃ¥vard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Harrison Rhodes, American racing driver |
1996 | The birth of Vivianne Miedema, Dutch football player |
1997 | The birth of Jil Teichmann, Swiss tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Noah Gragson, American racing driver |
2008 | The birth of Iain Armitage, American child actor |
2013 | The death of Earl Gros, American football player (b. 1940) |
2013 | The death of Noël Lee, Chinese-American pianist and composer (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (b. 1986) |
2013 | The death of John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1962) |
2014 | The death of Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Saúl Lara, Spanish footballer (b. 1982) |
2014 | The death of Edward Perl, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Masahiko Aoki, Japanese-American economist and academic (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Aubrey Morris, British actor (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Martin Landau, American film and television actor (b. 1928) |
2021 | The death of Peter R. de Vries, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter (b. 1956) |
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