Reid Wiseman

Reid Wiseman is the kind of astronaut who makes the whole enterprise feel human again — a Navy test pilot from Baltimore who flew combat missions, earned an Air Medal, and then somehow topped all of that with a long stay aboard the International Space Station on Expedition 40/41 in 2014. What made him stand out wasn't just the resume; it was the sense that he genuinely couldn't believe his luck, an infectious wonder that pulls people into caring about spaceflight. Then NASA made him chief of the Astronaut Office, which is less a desk job and more the person who decides which humans leave the planet — no small thing. Selected to command Artemis II, he's been the face of humanity's return to the Moon, and honestly, I can't think of a better one: decorated combat pilot, curious engineer, and the commander who took a crew around the Moon.

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Name (English)

Reid Wiseman

Name (Japanese)

リード・ワイズマン

Reading

りーど・わいずまん

Born

November 11, 1975 (age 50)

Origin

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Occupation

naval officer / astronaut / systems engineer / fighter pilot / test pilot

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

High school

Dulaney High School

University

Johns Hopkins University

Awards & achievements

• Air Medal

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/astro_reid/
• Xhttps://x.com/Astro_Reid
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid%20Wiseman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BA%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3116390

Tags

• Maryland
• naval officer
• astronaut
• systems engineer

Last updated

October 18, 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.