Nicole Mann to be the first Native American woman to go into space
In June 2013, Mann was selected by NASA for the astronaut program. She completed rigorous training in 2015 and was selected as Crew-5 mission commander in October 2021. The flight is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center, Florida before September 29, 2022.
In 2002, Captain John Harrington, a naval aviator and member of the Chickasaw Nation, became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe in space. Mann's upcoming space flight will open the doors of space to Native American women.
Mann earned a BS from the US Naval Academy in 1999 in mechanical engineering and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps.
