Marcos Berríos

As a member of NASA's 2021 Astronaut Candidate Class, he trains for future spaceflight missions; as an active-duty Air Force officer he is also a test pilot with more than 1,400 flight hours in over 21 aircraft types and 110+ combat missions.

Commissioned through the Air National Guard in 2008, he trained as an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter pilot, became an Air Force test pilot, and was selected by NASA for its 2021 astronaut class — the second Puerto Rican ever selected to become an astronaut, after Joseph Acaba.

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, MIT; M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University

He went from Air National Guard helicopter pilot to Air Force test pilot to NASA astronaut candidate — each step built directly on real flight hours and technical credibility, not a single lucky break.

Astronauta de la NASA y piloto de pruebas de la Fuerza Aérea en servicio activo, originario de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, seleccionado en la clase de astronautas de la NASA de 2021.

• Marcos Berríos — NASA Astronaut Biography — NASA
• Puerto Rican pilot among NASA's astronaut recruit picks — Pasquines