SpaceX is scheduled to launch its 5th crewed space mission to the ISS today. On board and heading the expedition will be Nicole Mann, the first Native American woman to go to space.
Mann's Crew-5 mission aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Also on board will be Josh Cassada, Anna Kikina and Koichi Wakata. All four will travel to the International Space Station for a six-month mission, during which they plan to conduct more than 200 experiments, which will include spacewalks and 3D-printing human tissue.She said she hoped her trip to space can encourage younger generations.
"These young women, maybe Natives, maybe people from different backgrounds that realize that they have these opportunities and potentially these barriers that used to be there are starting to be broken down," she said."And so hopefully that will inspire that younger generation." Mann, who is originally from California, plans to take some items from home with her on her long journey.
"I do have some personal mementos, you know, jewelry charms that I plan to bring. And then I do have this dream catcher that my mother gave me long ago," she said."And that's always just, you know, a little bit, a piece, a memory, I think, of my family back home. And that's something that I'll keep with me in my crew quarters while I'm on board [the] space station.
As a kid, she said, she never really thought that becoming an astronaut was one of her goals. Only after joining the Marine Corps and flying F-18s did NASA become a possibility to her."If you don't go after a dream or a goal and if you don't try, you're never going to make it. You know, pursue that topic in school, ask for help, meet people that have done that job to learn more about it.
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