Garrett Reisman

Garrett Erin Reisman is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He was a backup crew member for Expedition 15 and joined Expedition 16 aboard the International Space Station for a short time before becoming a member of Expedition 17. He returned to Earth on June 14, 2008 on board STS-124 on Space Shuttle Discovery. He was a member of the STS-132 mission that traveled to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis from May 14 to 26, 2010. He is a consultant at SpaceX and a Professor of Astronautics Practice at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering.

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Garrett Reisman, former NASA engineer that went to work at SpaceX, talks about the differences between the two. “[At SpaceX] we would make a decision in a single meeting that would take years to reach the same decision point at NASA,” he says.

'2 Funny Astronauts': NASA vets Mike Massimino and Garrett Reisman launch new podcast