Nicole Mann, a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, is headed to the International Space Station as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission.
, is a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a test pilot in the F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet, according to NASA. She deployed twice in support of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.NASA coverage of the Crew 5 liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
"It’s very exciting," Mann told Indian Country Today. "I think it's important that we communicate this to our community, so that other Native kids, if they thought maybe that this was not a possibility or to realize that some of those barriers that used to be there are really starting to get broken down."Mann and her crew will replace three Americans and one Italian who will return in their own SpaceX capsule next week after almost half a year up there.
Cosmonaut Kikina joins two Russians already at the orbiting outpost. She’ll live and work on the Russian side until March, before returning to Earth in the same SpaceX capsule.All the news you need to know, every day
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