Garrett Reisman

Garrett Reisman fascinates me because he refuses to fit one box. A Caltech-trained engineer who actually flew to the International Space Station, lived there across two expeditions, and came home with NASA's Distinguished Service Medal, he then pivoted into entrepreneurship rather than resting on the legend. That blend of a researcher's rigor and an adventurer's nerve is rare. He also has an official website and Instagram and X accounts.

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Name (English)

Garrett Reisman

Name (Japanese)

ギャレット・リーズマン

Reading

ぎゃれっと・りーずまん

Born

February 10, 1968 (age 58)

Origin

Morristown, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

astronaut / engineer / entrepreneur

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Monkey

High school

Parsippany High School

University

University of Pennsylvania

Awards & achievements

• 2008 NASA Distinguished Service Medal
• Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"

• Official sitehttps://garrettreisman.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/astro_g_dogg/
• Xhttps://x.com/astro_g_dogg
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett%20Reisman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q358931

Tags

• New Jersey
• astronaut
• engineer
• entrepreneur

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.