Rebecca Esselstein

1st Lt. Rebecca Esselstein, U.S.A.F. is a graduate of Alter High School and the U.S. Air Force Acadmey where she studied Astronautical Engineering. She is a native of Washington Township and most recently completed her Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the University of Oxford in England as a Rhodes Scholar. In her spare time, Lt. Esselstein rowed for the Blue Boat at Oxford against Cambridge. She was CoSIDA Women’s Division I Track & Field Academic All-American of the Year in 2015. Her dream is to become an astronaut. Her next assignment is flight school in Texas.