Astronaut and UBC alumna to answer student questions from space station<\/p>\n
Published 10:10 am Tuesday, March 24, 2026<\/p>\n
University of British Columbia students will be getting a line directly to outer space on Thursday when Jessica Meir, a school alumna and astronaut, will answer questions live from the International Space Station.<\/p>\n
Meir is the spacecraft commander for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration\u2019s (NASA) SpaceX Crew-12 mission. She is living on the space station for an eight-month stint.<\/p>\n
She attended the UBC zoology program from 2009 to 2012, studying bar-headed geese as a postdoctoral fellow. Her project was to raise 12 geese from eggs and teach them to fly by leading them around campus on a scooter. She then used a wind tunnel to take physiological measurements.<\/p>\n
This is Meir\u2019s second stint on the space station, having participated in the first all-women spacewalks from 2019 to 2020. She has also worked as an \u201caquanaut\u201d as part of NASA\u2019s Extreme Environment Mission Operations exploring underwater habitats. <\/p>\n
Students submitted questions via Instagram. Those with the best questions were invited to ask the astronaut live on Thursday, March 26, at 10:20 a.m. in an on-campus event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronaut and UBC alumna to answer student questions from space station Published 10:10 am Tuesday, March 24, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-558035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}