Col (ret) Jack Fischer is a senior space ops leader, combat fighter pilot, astronaut and flight test expert with 27 years of experience across the spectrum of operational levels. He is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Draper Fellow with Bachelors and Masters degrees in Astronautics. He is also a command pilot astronaut with over 3,000 hours in more than 40 aircraft, an Associate Fellow in the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, and has 136 days in space with two spacewalks.