Brigadier General Andrew “Drew” Morgan assumed duties as the Deputy Commanding General of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command / Joint Task Force Gold at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, in July 2026. Morgan is an Army Astronaut and Space Operations Officer who most recently served as Commander, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), New Mexico, from June 2025 to July 2026.
Before commanding at WSMR, Morgan served as the Commander, U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll and U.S. Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, from June 2023 to June 2025. Prior to that he served as the USASMDC NASA Detachment Commander and Senior Army Astronaut at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. From July 2019 to April 2020, he was a flight engineer and U.S. Segment Lead (Expedition 61) aboard the International Space Station during Expeditions 60, 61, and 62. During his nine-month mission, he performed seven spacewalks, conducted robotic operations, and completed hundreds of scientific and maintenance activities. In his ten years at NASA, his assignments included roles as a T-38N aircrew member, space suit subject matter expert, operations officer, astronaut selection board member, mission support branch chief and astronaut liaison to the Mission Control Center flight control team for Expeditions 67 and 68.
Prior to being selected as a NASA Astronaut in 2013, Morgan was a board-certified emergency medicine physician with subspecialty training in primary care sports medicine. He is a rated master flight surgeon and a qualified special operations diving medical officer. His previous assignments included service as a staff emergency physician, a special mission unit medical team member, battalion surgeon for 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Special Operations Task Force Surgeon (Operation Enduring Freedom), and brigade surgeon/medical troop commander in a special mission unit. He deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa in support of combat operations and exercises.
Morgan was commissioned upon graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1998 and earned his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2002. He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. He is currently a LTG(R) James A. Dubik Writing Fellow.
His military awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, and Bronze Star Medal, along with the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Achievement Medal, and Space Exploration Medal. He has earned the Combat Medical Badge, Expert Field Medical Badge, Master Space Badge (with Astronaut Device), Master Flight Surgeon Badge, Parachutist Badge, Military Free Fall Parachutist Badge, Special Operations Diver Badge, and Ranger Tab.
BG Morgan is married, and they have four children.
July 2026
