NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, enrolled in Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in northern California, will make history this fall as the first Native woman to fly into space. via IndianCountry
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann becomes familiar with the spacecraft and its displays during a training at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, on June 13, 2022. Mann, enrolled in Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in northern California, will be aboard the SpaceX Crew-5 mission to go to the International Space Station no earlier than Sept. 29.
The crew will live on board for six months to complete their mission of conducting approximately 250 scientific experiments in the space station that is “a floating laboratory,” Mann said, who is a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. The force of gravity makes printing and growing cells on Earth difficult. That is a different story in space with “a much more intact structure of the cell,” she said.“We’re not there yet. However, we have successfully printed some heart cells as well as part of the meniscus of a knee. And so this facility has flown, and then come and printed cells and then come back to Earth,” she said.
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured being lowered into the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory during a spacewalk training session on May 13, 2014. Mann graduated from Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park, California, in 1995. She obtained a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering in 1999 from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. In 1999, she was also commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps.
NASA astronaut Joe Acaba, center, moderates a panel discussion with NASA's 2013 astronaut candidates, from left, Christina M. Hammock, Andrew R. Morgan, Victor J. Glover, Jessica U. Meir, Tyler N."Nick" Hague, Josh A. Cassada, Anne C. McClain and Nicole Aunapu Mann at the annual White House State of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math address, Wednesday, Jan.
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