JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Oct. 31, 2022) – NASA Astronaut, Army Col. Andrew Morgan (left) returns items he carried to the International Space Station (ISS) to Navy Capt. Ewell Hollis, executive officer of Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio during a presentation ceremony held at the Brooke Army Medical Center’s Putnam Auditorium. Morgan, the first Army physician in space, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to the ISS aboard a Soyuz (Union) MS-13 spacecraft on July 20, 2019. During his time aboard the space station, Morgan participated in
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Oct. 31, 2022) – NASA Astronaut, Army Col. Andrew Morgan (left) returns items he carried to the International Space Station (ISS) to Navy Capt. Ewell Hollis, executive officer of Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio during a presentation ceremony held at the Brooke Army Medical Center’s Putnam Auditorium. Morgan, the first Army physician in space, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to the ISS aboard a Soyuz (Union) MS-13 spacecraft on July 20, 2019. During his time aboard the space station, Morgan participated in numerous medical and technological experiments and tasks, as well as several planned high-profile space walks. NAMRU San Antonio’s mission is to conduct gap driven combat casualty care, craniofacial, and directed energy research to improve survival, operational readiness, and safety of Department of Defense (DoD) personnel engaged in routine and expeditionary operations. It is one of the leading research and development laboratories for the Navy under the DoD and is one of eight subordinate research commands in the global network of laboratories operating under the Naval Medical Research Center in Silver Spring, Md.
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