Space – UCLA American Indian Studies Center

[BBC News] First Native American woman to travel to space

September 1, 2022August 18, 2022 News indigenous, indigenous peoples, indigenous women, NASA, native american, Native Americans, Space, women

Next month Nasa will send a new crew into space. And for the first time there will be a Native American woman aboard. Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, will be mission commander – responsible for all phases of flight. She will go to the International Space Station … Read more

[Anchorage Daily News] Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann will make history as the first Native woman to fly into space

August 16, 2022August 13, 2022 News California, California Native American, History, indigenous, indigenous woman, indigenous women, NASA, native american, Native Americans, Round Valley Indian Tribe, Round Valley Indian Tribes, Space, Wailacki

Nicole Aunapu Mann will be making history as the first Native woman to fly into space this fall. Mann, enrolled in Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in northern California, will be aboard the SpaceX Crew-5 mission to go to the International Space Station no earlier than Sept. 29. “It’s very exciting,” she told … Read more