Jeanette Epps, Corcoran and Le Moyne graduate, featured on national magazine cover

Jeanette Epps, a Syracuse native who will travel to space in May 2018, is on the cover of September's home-delivered Woman's Day magazine.

Epps will be traveling to space in 2018 to live and work on the International Space Station.

The astronaut is featured on the cover of the magazine that subscribers receive at their home. The edition sold at news stands is different.

A 1988 graduate of Corcoran High School, Epps graduated from Le Moyne College with a physics degree in 1992 and returned there to give the commencement speech in 2016.

She has worked as a CIA agent and an automobile engineer at Ford Motor Co.

Epps has been working toward space travel since she was selected to NASA's 20th astronaut class in 2009. She was one of nine chosen from a group of 3,500 applicants.

She has since trained for space walks, robotics, jet flying, wilderness survival and Russian language.

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