Jessica Watkins

**Jessica Andrea Watkins** (amuru May 14, 1988) bu onye na-enyocha mbara igwe nke NASA, ọkà mmụta banyere mbara ala, aquanaut na onye bụbu onye egwuregwu rugby mba ụwa. A mara ọkwa Watkins dị ka nwanyị ojii mbụ nke ga-emecha ọdụ ogologo oge International Space Station na Eprel 2022. 

## Ndụ mmalite na agụmakwụkwọ
A mụrụ Jessica Watkins na Mee 14, 1988 na Gaithersburg, Maryland nye Michael na Carolyn Watkins.   Ezinụlọ ya kwagara Lafayette, Colorado, ebe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Fairview High School . O nwetara nzere bachelọ na sayensị geological na gburugburu ebe obibi na Mahadum Stanford . N'ebe ahụ, ọ bụ onye otu egwuregwu rugby . Mgbe Stanford gasịrị, Watkins nwetara Ph.D. na Geology na Mahadum California, Los Angeles . Nnyocha ya gụsịrị akwụkwọ, n'okpuru nlekọta nke Prọfesọ An Yin, lekwasịrị anya na usoro ntinye maka mbuze na Mars na Ụwa, gụnyere mmetụta nke ọrụ mmiri.  Tupu ahọpụtara ya dị ka onye na-enyocha mbara igwe, Watkins bụ onye ọrụ postdoctoral na California Institute of Technology, ebe ọ bụkwa onye na-enye aka nchịkwa na otu egwuregwu basketball ụmụ nwanyị.   

## Ọrụ Rugby
Watkins began playing rugby during her freshman year at Stanford and remained on the team for four years. In 2008, during her sophomore year, she was a member of the Division I national champion team. In both 2008 and 2010, Watkins became a member of First Team Collegiate Rugby All-American. She is a former American women's national team rugby player for the sevens, and played for the USA Eagles in its 3rd-place finish at the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens. During the World Cup she was the leading try scorer for the US team.

## NASA ọrụ
thumb| Watkins dị ka onye ndoro-ndoro NASA na June 2017
Dị ka onye na-agụghị akwụkwọ, Watkins rụrụ ọrụ na Ames Research Center iji kwado Mars Phoenix lander na prototype Mars drill test. Na 2009, ọ bụ onye isi geologist maka NASA Spaceward Bound Crew 86 na Mars Desert Research Station .  Dị ka nwa akwụkwọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ, ọ rụrụ ọrụ na Jet Propulsion Laboratory na ọrụ NEOWISE iji nyochaa nso-Earth asteroids. Watkins rụkwara ọrụ na nhazi maka Mars rover *Curiosity* .  Na 2011, Watkins jere ozi dị ka onye otu ọrụ sayensị maka ozi analọgụ.  Ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye na-eme atụmatụ maka rover Mars 2020 na ihe nlele Mars, ma bụrụkwa onye otu sayensị maka ebumnuche nyocha Desert na teknụzụ analog.  Dị ka onye postdoctoral ibe na Caltech, na dị ka onye na-arụkọ ọrụ na Mars Science Laboratory Science Team, o sonye na nhazi ụbọchị nke ihe omume Mars rover ma jiri data oyiyi ya jikọtara ya na data orbital iji nyochaa stratigraphy, geology, na geomorphology nke Mars. 

Na June 2017, ahọpụtara Watkins ka onye otu NASA Astronaut Group 22 wee malite ọzụzụ afọ abụọ n'August.   Na Disemba 2020, ahọpụtara ya ka ọ bụrụ akụkụ nke otu Artemis ka ọ laghachite mmadụ na Ọnwa.  Afọ 2024 bụ ụbọchị echere maka mbido ọnwa.  Na Nọvemba 2021, ọ ghọrọ onye na-enyocha mbara igwe nke anọ nke Group 22, na nwanyị ojii mbụ, ka e kenye ya ozi na ọdụ ụgbọ elu International Space (ISS) ka ahọpụtara ya dị ka onye ikpeazụ nke SpaceX Crew-4, nke akwadoro ịmalite na Eprel 2022.    Ọ ga-abụ oge mbụ Watkins na mbara igwe. Ọ ga-ejekwa ozi dị ka ọkachamara mgbasa ozi maka ozi ọnwa isii ahụ.  Ọrụ ya ga-agụnye ileba anya na ịse foto mgbanwe geological na Ụwa, yana nyocha ndị ọzọ gbasara sayensị ụwa na mbara igwe, sayensị ihe ọmụmụ ihe ndụ, na mmetụta nke ogologo oge na-efe efe na ụmụ mmadụ. 

### NEEMO 23
Watkins sonyeere na ozi NEEMO 23 site na June 10 ruo June 22, 2019.  Ozi a nwalere teknụzụ na ebumnobi maka ozi mbara ala miri emi na nyocha ọnwa n'elu oke osimiri. Ọrụ NEEMO nke Watkins bụ nke mbụ n'ụdị ya gosipụtara otu nyocha nwanyị niile nke onye na-enyocha mbara igwe Italy bụ Samantha Cristoforetti na-edu.  

## Ndụ onwe onye
Nne na nna Watkins bi na Lafayette, Colorado. Ihe omume ntụrụndụ ya gụnyere bọọlụ, ịrị elu nkume, ski, na ide ihe okike. 

## Ihe nrite na nkwanye ugwu
Watkins enwetala ọtụtụ ihe nrite maka ọrụ ya, agụmakwụkwọ, na egwuregwu, gụnyere:

* Stanford Earth n'oge- ruo n'etiti- Ọrụ Alumni Alumni, 2018 
* Ngalaba Caltech nke Geological na Planetary Sciences Onye isi oche Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2015  
* Mmekọrịta Postdoctoral, California Alliance for Graduate Education na Prọfesọ (AGEP), 2015 
* NASA Group Achievement Award, Mars Science Laboratory Prime Mission Science and Operations Team, 2015 
* Harold na Mayla Sullwold nkuzi maka Ọkachamara Ọkachamara na Nchọpụta izizi pụtara ìhè, UCLA Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 2012 
* Mmekọrịta nyocha nke gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Geosciences, National Science Foundation, 2012 
* Ndịiche dị na Geosciences Minority Research Award Grant, Geological Society of America, 2011 
* Ihe nrite nke Chancellor, UCLA, 2010 
* California Space Grant Consortium Fellowship, 2010 
* Nkeji I College Rugby National onye mmeri, Stanford Women's Rugby, 2008 
* USA Rugby Collegiate All-American, 2008-2010 
* Ụmụ nwanyị asaa Rugby World Cup ọkara nke ikpeazụ, USA Eagles, 2009 

## Hụkwa

* Ndepụta nke ndị na-enyocha mbara igwe nke Africa-America

## Ntụaka


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