Nicole Mann
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Nicole Victoria "Duke" Aunapu Mann is a Native 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. 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, but subsequently reassigned to the SpaceX Crew-5, becoming the first female commander of a NASA Commercial Crew Program launch.
1977
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Nicole A. Mann; Nicole Aunapu Mann; Nicole Mann; Nicole V. Aunapu; Nicole Victoria Aunapu
Women of the Year, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Air Medal, NASA Astronaut Group 21, United States,
NASA Astronaut Group 21,
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NASA Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann visited Estonia on 2023-09-26 - Nicole Aunapu-Mann at Teaduskeskus AHHAA (53217489971)
Bill Nelson looks on the SpaceX Crew-5 crew as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A.







