After becoming the first Native American woman in space, Nicole Mann said she hopes to inspire indigenous youth.
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Marine Colonel Nicole Aunapu Mann made history as one of a four-member astronaut crew to blast off from Florida bound for the International Space Station. Mann, 45, became the first Native American woman to launch into space.
Mann was joined on the SpaceX Falcon rocket Wednesday by fellow NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, Japan's Koichi Wakata and Russia's Anna Kikina, orbiting in a Crew Dragon capsule and set to reach the outpost in 29 hours. The mission known as Crew-5 is SpaceX's sixth crewed flight under contract from NASA and eighth overall when including private spaceflights.
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Not native
We are all native.
A woman named Man… 😮
Mann is the Anglo-Saxon spelling and in that dialect of Old English, mann simply meant people. See mankind, manpower, manslaughter.
Quit playing politics with NASA, fools
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