The mission is scheduled to take place on September 29th. The team's three astronauts and researchers will carry out 250 scientific experiments that aim to assist in future projects related to space exploration.
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Mann is a member of the Wailacki tribe, native to Northern California. She studied mechanical engineering at Stanford University, was a colonel in the US Navy and has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, with more than 2.500 flight hours in 25 different types of aircraft. Did you find it too little? Don't worry, there's more: the astronaut won six medals for her services to the US armed forces.
In an interview with Indian Country Today*, Mann said she is very excited to be the first indigenous woman in space. “I think it’s important that we communicate this to our community so that other Native kids, if they thought maybe this wasn’t a possibility, realize that some of these barriers that used to exist are actually starting to be broken down.”
Mann is also part of the team that will return with NASA's manned missions to the Moon. She was one of the astronauts chosen in the Artemis program.
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