NASA and SpaceX just launched the first Native American woman into space: astronaut Nicole Mann. Mann is a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, and a colonel in the Marine Corps.
Nicole Aunapu Mann gives thumbs up during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.just launched the first Native American woman into space: astronaut Nicole Mann.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched from Launch Complex 39A, on May 30, 2020.Mann is a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes. She previously said she was bringing her mother's dream catcher to the ISS with her. Left to right: Josh Cassada, Anna Kikina, Nicole Aunapu Mann, and Koichi Wakata pose at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on October 4, 2022."That was a smooth ride uphill," Mann told mission control from orbit, moments after Crew Dragon separated from the final stage of its Falcon 9 rocket."You've got three rookies that are pretty happy to be floating in space right now and one veteran astronaut who's pretty happy to be back as well.
Nicole Mann sits in a T-38 in preparation for astronaut training at NASA's Johnson Space Center, on November 15, 2018."As a little kid, I was interested in math and science, but I didn't realize that being an astronaut was actually in the realm of possibilities," she told the Journal.
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