Jessica Watkins

Jessica Watkins wants to go to the moon. No seriously, she really wants to fly to the moon one day and there is a good chance she might just do it. When you consider she spent more than half of 2022 in space, her quest to reach the moon no longer seems like a pipe dream. In fact, the 34-year-old astronaut served as a mission specialist on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station this year. When the mission ended in October, she became the first Black woman to work on the Space station and the fifth Black woman to enter space. And this tops it all: She has now spent more time in space than any Black woman in history. Actually,  she’s spent more time in space than nearly anyone, ever.