Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann is part of the NASA crew set to launch into space aboard the SpaceX Dragon next month. Mann will become the first Native American woman to travel to space.
NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann is seen during a NASA event on Aug. 3, 2018, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Photo: Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty ImagesWhy it matters:Indian Country Today"I think it's important that we communicate this to our community, so that other Native kids, if they thought maybe that this was not a possibility or to realize that some of those barriers that used to be there are really starting to get broken down," she said.
Mann is an enrolled member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in Northern California, per Indian Country Today.rotational mission to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. Mann is due to be joined by NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, according
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