Her name is Nicole Onapo Mann, a Wailacki woman of the Round Valley Indian tribes in the United States, and she will be a leader space mission x To whom will he go? International Space Station On September 29, in addition to being responsible for all phases of the flight. She is the first Aboriginal woman to travel to space.
Mann, originally from California, studied mechanical engineering at Stanford University.
He became a colonel in the Marine Corps, piloting several combat aircraft. She has been deployed twice to aircraft carriers supporting combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has been awarded six medals for her service in the US Army.
“It’s very exciting,” he told Indian Country Today.
“I think it’s important that we pass this on to our community, so that other Indigenous children realize that some of those barriers that were there are really starting to break down,” she added.
It is one of eight members of Class 21 astronauts at NASA, formed for space station operations and possible future assignments to the Moon and Mars.
will join it Astronaut and pilot Josh Casada, astronaut Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina.
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