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Deborah Martorell

BO · Puerto Rican · Private · Occasional Spaceflight

Career record

Flights
1
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
10m
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0

Biography

Puerto Rican meteorologist and journalist. Her reporting on environmental and space topics has garnered eight Emmy Awards and two Awards of Excellence in Science Reporting from the American Meteorological Society. Her passion for space led her to participate in a 2007 microgravity flight with NASA, extensively cover Puerto Rican astronauts Joe Acabá and Marcos Berríos, and report on missions including STS-119, Artemis 1, and the launch of Puerto Rico's first nanosatellite, CuNARD-2. She was selected for the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences’ project PoSSUM, and is also a Solar System Ambassador for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

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