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NASA Astronaut Nicole A. Mann

Nicole Aunapu Mann was selected by NASA in June 2013. She most recently served as the commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station as part of Expedition 68.

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Colonel Mann launched to the International Space Station as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, Endurance, on October 5, 2022. She spent 157 days onboard the ISS as part of Expedition 68.

Colonel Mann launched to the International Space Station as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, <em>Endurance</em>, on October 5, 2022. She spent 157 days onboard the ISS as part of Expedition 68.

Mann is the first indigenous woman from NASA to go to space and is registered with the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes.

Mann is the first indigenous woman from NASA to go to space and is registered with the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes.

Mann is a Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a combat fighter and test pilot in the F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet. She deployed twice aboard aircraft carriers in support of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mann is a Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a combat fighter and test pilot in the F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet. She deployed twice aboard aircraft carriers in support of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

NASA astronaut Nicole Mann poses for a portrait, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, in the Blue Flight Control Room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. (Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)

(20 January 2023) NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann is pictured in her Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or spacesuit, during her first spacewalk. She and fellow spacewalker Koichi Wakata (out of frame) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency installed a modification kit on the International Space Station’s starboard truss structure that will enable the future installation of the orbiting lab’s next roll-out solar array.

(13 February 2023) Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann works on life support maintenance inside the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module.

NASA astronauts Josh Cassada, left, and Nicole Mann, second from left, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, second from right, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, right, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A during a dress rehearsal prior to the Crew-5 mission launch, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission is the fifth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. (Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky)

(1 December 2022) Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann (center) of NASA poses with NASA spacewalkers Josh Cassada (left) and Frank Rubio (right) who were suited up and ready to begin a spacewalk to install a roll-out solar array on the International Space Station’s Port-4 truss segment. The spacewalk was ultimately postponed for 24 hours so that the orbiting lab’s ISS Progress 81 cargo craft could fire its engines to maneuver the station and avoid an approaching piece of rocket debris.

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SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne

(13 June 2022) SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. (Credit: SpaceX)

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