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American astronaut

Nicole Victoria "Duke"^[1]Aunapu Mann (born June 27, ) is an American test pilot and NASA astronaut.

She is an F/A Hornet pilot and a graduate of the US Naval Academy, Stanford University, and the US Naval Test Pilot School.^[2][3] She has over 2, flight hours in 25 types of aircraft and carrier landings, and has flown 47 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mann completed astronaut training in and was assigned in August to Boe-CFT, the first crewed test flight of the Boeing CST Starliner,^[2][4][5] but subsequently reassigned to the SpaceX Crew-5, becoming the first female commander of a NASA Commercial Crew Program launch.

Her first spaceflight launched in October and made her the first Native American woman in space.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]} She stayed in space for months, and on January 20, , she became the first Na