Nicole Aunapu Mann
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| Born | Nicole Victoria Aunapu June 27, 1977 Petaluma, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||
| Other names | Duke | ||||||||||||||||
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| Spouse | Travis R. Mann | ||||||||||||||||
| Children | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Rank | Colonel, USMC | ||||||||||||||||
Time in space | 157d 10h 1m | ||||||||||||||||
| Selection | NASA Group 21 (2013) | ||||||||||||||||
Total EVAs | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
Total EVA time | 14h 2m | ||||||||||||||||
| Missions | SpaceX Crew-5 (Expedition 68) | ||||||||||||||||
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Nicole Victoria "Duke" 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. 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.
Her first spaceflight launched in October 2022 and made her the first Native American woman in space. 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.