Frank Rubio. Credit: NASA
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio belongs to the Artemis Team, a choose group of astronauts charged with concentrating on the advancement and training efforts for early Artemis objectives.
Dr. Frank Rubio was picked by NASA to sign up with the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. He reported for task in August 2017 and having actually finished the preliminary astronaut prospect training is now qualified for an objective project. The Florida native finished from the U.S. Military Academy and made a Doctorate of Medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Prior to participating in medical school, he acted as a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter pilot and flew more than 1,100 hours, consisting of more than 600 hours of battle and impending risk time throughout releases to Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Rubio is a board accredited family doctor and flight cosmetic surgeon. At the time of his choice, he was serving in the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne).
Rubio acted as an army leader in A Company, 2-82nd Assault Aviation (REDHAWKS), and as a business leader in A Company, 2-3rd Aviation (STORM). Rubio likewise acted as a center manager, an executive medication company and a flight cosmetic surgeon at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. At the time of his choice in June 2017, Rubio was a battalion cosmetic surgeon for the 3rd Battalion of the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in the U.S. Army.
Rubio has actually been granted the Bronze Star (2nd award), Meritorious Service Medal (2nd award), Army Commendation Medal (4th award), and Army Achievement Medal (4th award). He is a graduate of the United States Army Command and General Staff College, United States Army Aviation Captain’s Career Course and Officer Basic Course, Joint Firepower Control Course, Cavalry Leader’s Course, and the United States Army Flight Surgeon Course. He has actually made the United States Army Senior Aviator, Pathfinder, Air Assault, and Airborne badges.
Through the Artemis program, NASA and a union of global partners will go back to the Moon to discover how to survive on other worlds for the advantage of all. With Artemis objectives NASA will send out the very first female and the next guy to the Moon in 2024 and about when each year afterwards.
Through the efforts of human beings and robotics, we will check out more of the Moon than ever prior to; to lead a journey of discovery that benefits our world with life-altering science, to utilize the Moon and its resources as an innovation testbed to go even further and to discover how to develop and sustain a human existence far beyond Earth.
