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Brown Alumna Selected for NASA's New Lunar Exploration Program
December 15, 2020
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 15 -- Brown University issued the following news release:

When she was in first grade, Jessica Meir drew a picture of what she wanted to be when she grew up. She drew herself in a spacesuit, standing beside the American flag of the surface of the Moon.

That childhood dream just took one giant leap toward reality.

On Dec. 9, NASA announced that Meir, a Brown Class of 1999 alumna, is one of 18 astronauts selected for the agency& . . .

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