Nicole Aunapu Mann

Nicole Aunapu Mann
Mann in 2022
Born
Nicole Victoria Aunapu

(1977-06-27) June 27, 1977 (age 47)
Petaluma, California, U.S.
Other namesDuke
Education
SpouseTravis R. Mann
Children1
Space career
NASA astronaut
RankColonel, USMC
Time in space
157d 10h 1m
SelectionNASA Group 21 (2013)
Total EVAs
2
Total EVA time
14h 2m
MissionsSpaceX Crew-5 (Expedition 68)
Mission insignia
Association football career
Position(s) Defender
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1999 Navy Midshipmen 75 (1)

Nicole Victoria "Duke"[1] Aunapu Mann (born June 27, 1977) is an American test pilot and NASA astronaut. She is an F/A-18 Hornet pilot and a graduate of the US Naval Academy, Stanford University, and the US Naval Test Pilot School.[2][3] She has over 2,500 flight hours in 25 types of aircraft and 200 carrier landings, and has flown 47 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mann completed astronaut training in 2015 and was assigned in August 2018 to Boe-CFT, the first crewed test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner,[2][4][5] but subsequently reassigned to the SpaceX Crew-5, becoming the first female commander of a NASA Commercial Crew Program launch.

Her first spaceflight launched in October 2022 and made her the first Native American woman in space.[6][7][8][9][10][11] She stayed in space for months, and on January 20, 2023, she became the first Native American woman to go on a spacewalk, which she went on with Koichi Wakata.[12]

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  4. ^ "NASA's Newest Astronauts Complete Training". NASA. July 9, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  5. ^ "NASA Assigns Crews to First Test Flights, Missions on Commercial Spacecraft". NASA. August 3, 2018. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
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  11. ^ Bennett-Begaye, Jourdan (October 5, 2022). "First Indigenous woman launches into space aboard SpaceX". APTN News. APTN. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  12. ^ "NASA astronaut becomes first Native American woman to conduct spacewalk". KRIS 6 News Corpus Christi. January 23, 2023.