From Ulyana Horodyskyj ’07 (Brown College) — I was selected as mission commander for NASA Johnson Space Center's HERA XII (human exploration research analog) experiment in September/October 2016. During this 30-day intense simulated mission to an asteroid, I received a call in the station's airlock that I made semifinalist status (top 120 out of over 18,300 applicants) for the astronaut program. I went straight from the isolation experiment to the interview process in late October 2016.