She was most recently director of flight test engineering for Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation and was previously an AH-1 attack helicopter pilot and Marine Corps test pilot with more than 2,000 flight hours. Naval Test Pilot School before earning a master’s in design engineering from Harvard University. For the first time, there were more women than men in an incoming astronaut class. Anna Menon, who accompanied billionaire Jared Isaacman on a SpaceX flight last September, is NASA's first astronaut candidate to have already visited orbit. She'll be in good company at Johnson: Her husband, a former SpaceX flight surgeon, was chosen in NASA's last astronaut class.