Nicole Aunapu Mann

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Nicole Victoria Aunapu Mann 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, 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 test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner. In 2021 she was reassigned to a SpaceX Crew-5 flight aboard Crew Dragon spacecraft due to lengthy delays with Starliner program.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Petaluma

Education

Stanford University; United States Naval Test Pilot School; United States Naval Academy; Rancho Cotate High School

Awards

Women of the Year; Air Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; Iraq Campaign Medal

From Wikidata.

• Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-5Spacecraft Commander · Success · with Anna Kikina, Josh A. Cassada, Koichi WakataOctober 5, 2022