https://www.garrettreisman.com/home daily 1.0 2025-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630041324340-Z9YY15ZN4NWOBO84WTAZ/Screen+Shot+2021-08-26+at+10.15.12+PM.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630041428903-LPJ0X8R0B9PJDLVZOEUM/Screen+Shot+2021-08-26+at+10.16.56+PM.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630042211130-3TNFRV6L7H3C47E55XEQ/Screen+Shot+2021-08-26+at+10.29.59+PM.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630042634517-L9FFV18H9ONV7EQ72CYI/IMG_0487.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630042778751-X3T2G0UXMWZF6WTTTB65/ISS017E005097_nr.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/3b1e259a-3993-4ea0-8f61-acfd0dbb03fc/Screen+Shot+2024-11-06+at+5.48.38+PM.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1023454f-149b-4539-b461-2e04325df929/Screen+Shot+2024-11-06+at+5.50.18+PM.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/ddb92c22-156d-48cf-b6e2-f4bd4e598479/fTvZfbYj7MQ-HD.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/3e716aac-98c4-480d-a161-abd2ad9088ba/Y8wqday4HLk-HD.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/6bf19387-33d0-475e-92f4-dac10ebb6692/Interstellar.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/31a49a71-c418-466c-b735-82397446a5b6/Gravity+2.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/18e4debe-9515-4e06-83a1-63de30ae3d04/p8vR2FB1PGM-HD.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630040656011-XY4AWBAIOEI5QALLX5N0/image-asset.jpeg Home A NASA veteran who flew on all three Space Shuttles, Garrett Reisman was selected by NASA as a mission specialist astronaut in 1998. His first mission in 2008 was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour which dropped him off for a 95 day stay aboard the International Space Station after which he returned to Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. His second mission in 2010 was aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. During these missions, Garrett performed 3 spacewalks, operated the Space Station Robot Arm and was a flight engineer aboard the Space Shuttle. Not only was he an astronaut, but Garrett was also an aquanaut serving as a crew member on NEEMO V, living on the bottom of the sea in the Aquarius deep underwater habitat for 2 weeks. After leaving NASA in early 2011, he joined SpaceX where he served in multiple capacities, most recently as the Director of Space Operations. Garrett stepped down from his full-time position at SpaceX in May of 2018 and in June 2018 he became a Professor of Astronautical Engineering in the Viterbi School at USC. He continued to support SpaceX as a Senior Advisor until 2024. Today Garrett continues to contribute to the commercial space sector by working as an Astronaut Advisor at VAST. Garrett attended the University of Pennsylvania and Caltech where he received his Ph.D in 1997. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630355657851-BAUGULIVFJNW2LZDNPN4/image-asset.jpeg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.garrettreisman.com/my-life daily 0.75 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630098007560-51BECN12IEI5EDM7WCJ8/image-asset.jpeg My Life - Hi, I’m Garrett Reisman You might know me as a NASA astronaut who flew on all three Space Shuttles, spending a cumulative 107 days in space and performing 3 spacewalks. You might also know me as an executive at SpaceX where I helped the company prepare to send humans into space on the Crew Dragon Spacecraft and the Falcon 9 Rocket. And you might have seen me on the ‘Colbert Report’ or the ‘Joe Rogan Experience.’ But who am I really and how did this journey begin? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630100795859-ZWWUU818EHGLY9BUQ5AR/49722400601_cf27d6e039_o.jpg My Life - Childhood By all accounts I was a typical kid, although a bit small and nerdy. I played little league baseball, poorly. It was a cause for major celebration if I hit the ball out of the infield and my whole family would go out for ice cream sundaes. My apparent lack of coordination along with my small stature made my dream of growing up to play center for the New York Knicks basketball team even more unlikely than becoming an astronaut. I joined the Cub Scouts but failed out of the Webelos before I could ever become a Boy Scout. (I just couldn’t handle the pressure of having to earn all those merit badges.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630100918642-N0CE5LNDS00H69JMCFQ0/49722400326_42b1feae1f_o.png My Life - Family Becoming an astronaut and doing all these other things never would have happened without the support of my amazing family which consisted of a father who was an outstanding role model without even trying, a mother who offered steadfast unconditional support, and a sister who also was (and still is) my BFF. My father, Robert, never pushed me to follow in his footsteps as a mechanical engineer, but I am sure I subconsciously wanted to be just like my dad. He was the greatest guy in the world and he was the funniest guy I would ever meet. His antics and stories are legendary. My father would pass away in 2002 never living to see me launch into space, but he was with me the whole time. My mother, Sheila, was always there for me and my sister, never missing a sporting event or a school concert. But ironically she is afraid of flying. In fact, the only way I could get her to go flying with me was to point out that I was taking her husband and daughter up so she should hop in my rented Cessna lest she be the only one left… My sister Lainie inherited my dad’s great sense of humor and has a real knack for getting people to like her which is easy to do. She became a very successful expert on economic development and has lived with her husband and two children all over the world. Our dad used to lament that he had one child who might be blown to smithereens on a rocket and one child who might be eaten by komodo dragons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630101358544-FYR7GVZ80UQ8K9YZRUA1/Untitled-1.png My Life - Education Attending public schools in Parsippany, NJ, my education was top-notch and I never would have gotten to the launch pad without some amazing teachers and coaches. In particular, my high school physics teacher, Gerard Vandervoort, infected me with a love of science and my high school wrestling coach, Gary Vittorio, taught me the meaning of dedication and hard work. Attending the University of Pennsylvania was a great learning experience and a ridiculously good time too! Penn professors Joe Bordogna and Bill Hamilton were the best mentors a student could ask for. Then it was on to Caltech where I had the great fortune of having Chris Brennen as my Ph.D. thesis advisor. There is no way I would have made it to the launch pad without all of these amazing teachers, coaches, and professors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/fde15022-5d35-4883-963e-0d5d7c734ef4/unnamed.jpg My Life - Family - Now While at Caltech I met my wife Simone, which was admittedly improbable. The women at Caltech have a saying – “The odds are good – but the goods are odd.” Nevertheless, love will find a way – and if that sounds saccharine, recall that I have been accused of being the world’s most romantic astronaut. Simone has a Ph.D. in oceanography, so together we have more degrees than a thermometer shoved up the Sun’s butt. We also have two amazing children, and we all live happily ever after together in both Southern California and the Pacific Northwest. https://www.garrettreisman.com/my-missions daily 0.75 2021-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630102461032-1MAABTDTUY7XMNYHGZJG/image-asset.png My Missions - STS-123 ENDEAVOUR My first flight to space was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2008. In official NASA terminology, this was mission STS-123. We launched in the early morning hours of March 11, 2008 – a night launch made even more spectacular by the presence of an overcast cloud layer that was lit up by Endeavour’s engines, turning night into day. It was the first flight into space for me, my classmates Mike Foreman and Greg Johnson and my old friend Bob Behnken. Bob and I were graduate school classmates at Caltech and many years later we would work together on the Commercial Crew Program – he for NASA and me for SpaceX. Rick Linnehan and I would conduct the first spacewalk of this mission before my STS-123 crewmates would climb back aboard Endeavour for the voyage home, leaving me onboard the International Space Station (ISS) for my long-duration flight. We delivered the first piece of the Japanese Laboratory Module, ‘Kibo’, to the ISS and delivered and assembled the Canadian DEXTRE Robot, but the primary mission objective was the ISS crew rotation. When the mission priorities were presented in a large NASA mission planning meeting, I jumped up and said, “I’m #1! I’m #1!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630340305849-Q1IF5QXE52VIWKQJTYUP/image-asset.png My Missions - EXPEDITION 16/17 ISS After STS-123 departed I became part of ISS Expedition 16, commanded by Peggy Whitson, along with Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko. I think Peggy was grateful to have me as comic relief for the end of her 6 months in space, although I’m not sure she appreciated it when Yuri and I staged a mutiny on April 1st. Yuri was a pleasure to fly with too and I’ll never forget the rare off-duty time together hanging out in the Russian Segment of the ISS sipping tea and talking about life. About a month later, my Expedition 17 crewmates, Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko showed up in a Soyuz along with the first South Korean Astronaut, Yi So-yeon. Sergei was our commander and he was the first 2nd generation spaceflier – his father was a cosmonaut. Expedition 17 was a great success, except that our toilet broke and when you have three dudes on a space station with a broken toilet…it’s not good. Fortunately, the Space Shuttle Discovery showed up soon thereafter during the STS-124 mission and the first thing that Commander Mark Kelly said when he floated across the open hatch was, “Hey, you guys need a plumber?” We were happy to see him, but we were happier to see the spare parts he brought with him to fix the ISS toilet. Oh yeah, they also brought up the rest of the Japanese Laboratory pressurized module, which was also important. I would return to Earth with Mark and the rest of the crew of STS-124, completing my 95 days in space. Which was a bummer – because if you stay for 100 days, you get a patch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630103058589-XOHV6XN46ZAS7611JKNQ/Untitled-1.png My Missions - STS-132 ATLANTIS Sometimes the universe tends to unfold as it should. I’ve found that it is more important who you do things with than what you do, and the crew of STS-132 was a very special group of guys. Tomfoolery, shenanigans and running on the pool deck were guaranteed to occur. The day after we were assigned to the mission, I ran into the Chief of the Astronaut Office and asked him, “What were you thinking?” He had no good answer. Our Commander, Ken “Hock” Ham, was the closest thing I’ve found to a real-life Captain Kirk. The Pilot, Tony “Guido” Antonelli was an MIT graduate who somehow pulled off a good ‘ole boy NASCAR-loving southern boy persona. Steve Bowen was the closest thing we had to adult supervision, but in this capacity he was a complete failure, fortunately. Mike “Bueno” Good was the epitome of quiet competence, when he wasn’t busting my balls. And Piers Sellers with his hilarious dry British humor was one of the most patient and gracious people I’ve ever met. At a party for the launch team at the Cape, an old-timer called us “One of the Last Great Crews” and that might be the highest compliment we ever received. But when we stood on the launch pad gazing up at Atlantis on May 14, 2010, Tony turned to me and said, “You know all that fun we’ve been having? Well, it’s gonna look real bad if we mess* this up.” Fortunately, as fun as my crewmates were they were also very good at their jobs and despite having to overcome some unexpected challenges the mission was a huge success. We added a new module to the Space Station, changed out the solar panel batteries and installed a huge antenna. That’s me in the spacesuit holding the antenna. If my crewmates were here right now, they would say actually that antenna isn’t so huge, it just looks big next to that tiny astronaut. *actually he didn’t say ‘mess’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630103382358-MT1PPESE4R0W5WUXBWKE/image-asset.png My Missions - NEEMO V AQUARIUS 20,000 Millimeters Under the Sea In addition to being an astronaut, I’m also an aquanaut. There is an underwater laboratory located a few miles off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. This habitat is run by NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, and is called Aquarius. It is like a small submarine that stays anchored to the sea floor at a depth of 60 feet, or about 20,000 millimeters under the sea. NASA uses Aquarius to train astronauts for life aboard the International Space Station (ISS) since there are a lot of similarities. Psychologically we were nearly as cooped-up on Aquarius as we would be in a module of the space station. The time it would take in an emergency to get out of the Aquarius with a full decompression and back to dry land is about a full day, about the same as it would take to evacuate the space station in the Soyuz capsule. We went out on SCUBA dives as if we were doing spacewalks. We ate the same food on Aquarius that we would have in space and used the same laptops and software to schedule our activities. We also performed many of the same scientific experiments we would later do on the ISS. In June 2003 I was assigned to NEEMO 5, the fifth crew to participate in the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations. Our commander was Peggy Whitson who would also be my commander on the ISS. My other crewmates were my astronaut classmate Clay Anderson and Dr. Emma Hwang from NASA’s life sciences group. We also had two NOAA aquanauts who accompanied us to operate the Aquarius, they were the very capable duo of Ryan Snow and James Talacek. While the view of the fish out the window was amazing, it wasn’t as good as the view of the Earth out of the ISS. But my encounter with a huge Goliath Grouper during an evening bathroom run was definitely scarier than any creature I saw in space! https://www.garrettreisman.com/garrett-in-the-news daily 0.75 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630356967173-BK3655M730GHVUW79EKT/Garrett+Reisman+Launch+America Garrett In The News - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.garrettreisman.com/speaking-engagements daily 0.75 2024-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Speaking Engagements https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630341541487-ZF89KC5TIJMNXYRXJC65/image-asset.jpeg Speaking Engagements https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630342898808-JWLLIPULAMGRUCQR1V5P/image-asset.png Speaking Engagements - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630342960092-351ZYW4M5FMKLAB0FPG4/image-asset.png Speaking Engagements - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.garrettreisman.com/contact-me daily 0.75 2021-09-10 https://www.garrettreisman.com/stephenandme daily 0.75 2021-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630345655543-SBVS9I7GEHP3L15V7LP6/image-asset.jpeg The Colbert Show https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630346040301-DBM4I1MFSSQUGFXDNZDN/image-asset.jpeg The Colbert Show - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630346409156-7NMDZWXLTUDEYP9M6MMV/image-asset.png The Colbert Show - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630346571815-WOOJKR67GGQC5417YU2S/image-asset.jpeg The Colbert Show - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630346686314-E7Y4MS2BTIOUTWCW2N9J/image-asset.png The Colbert Show - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.garrettreisman.com/tunes daily 0.75 2021-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61286944fd8ab42b8f33a0f6/1630356617701-4WG5J803YZI9KC6CIG6L/image-asset.png Tunes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.garrettreisman.com/coming-soon daily 0.75 2021-08-30