Josef Schmid

Josef F. Schmid (born 6 July 1965) is a German-American physician, NASA flight surgeon and a major general in the United States Air Force Reserves. On 8 October 2021 he became one of the first humans to be Holoported off the planet and into space, visiting the International Space Station by telepresence. He received his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 1992. He completed his family practice residency at David Grant USAF Medical Center and then served tours in Okinawa, Japan, and Frankfurt, Germany. Following his active duty Air Force service, Schmid then obtained his Master of public health degree in 2001 and an aerospace medicine residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas. Schmid is board certified and a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He lives in Houston, Texas and is married. He was the first NASA flight surgeon to serve on a NEEMO mission. Schmid was the crew surgeon for the STS-120, which visited the International Space Station (ISS) in October–November 2007.