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Nichole Ayers

Nichole Ayers

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Flight record

first and only flightFirst and only flight year 2025.
1Flight
147d 16hTime in space
5h 44mEVA time
0Spacewalks

Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.

Biography

Nichole Ayers is a US Air Force major who graduated from the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a minor in Russian. She later earned a master’s degree in computational and applied mathematics from Rice University. Ayers is an experienced combat aviator with more than 200 combat hours and more than 1,150 hours of total flight time in the T-38 and the F-22 Raptor fighter jet. Ayers led the first ever all-woman formation of the aircraft in combat. Exact date of birth unknown.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Background

Born in
San Diego
Education
United States Air Force Academy; Rice University; Woodland Park High School
Awards
Aerial Achievement Medal; Air Medal; Commendation Medal; Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal; Meritorious Service Medal

From Wikidata.

Flights

Expeditions

  • Expedition 72International Space Station · Flight Engineer2024-09-23 – 2025-04-19

Born 1989-01-01 · age 37