A Syracuse native will make history next year when she becomes the first African American astronaut to join an expedition at the International Space Station.
NASA has sent 14 black astronauts into space, but Jeanette Epps will be the first to call the ISS home since the station was founded 20 years ago.
Epps will be a flight engineer on Expedition 56, which is scheduled to launch in April, 2018. She will remain on board the space station for Expedition 57.
Click on the LISTEN link above to hear Epps talk about her upcoming mission.
She starts by responding to a question about whether being astronaut was a goal she set for herself when she was growing up in Syracuse.
