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My Take
Nicole Mann floors me, plainly. A Petaluma kid who went through the US Naval Academy and Stanford, flew the F/A-18 Hornet, logged forty-seven combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan, then climbed all the way to becoming a NASA astronaut. Air Medal, campaign decorations, carrier landings, and finally spaceflight: it reads like a film script, except it is real. From where I sit, firmly on the ground, people who keep reaching for ever higher altitudes are a kind of proof that ambition still pays off. I have nothing but loud, unreserved admiration for a life lived at full throttle.
Overview
Nicole Victoria "Duke" Aunapu Mann (born June 27, 1977) is an American test pilot and NASA astronaut. She is an F/A-18 Hornet pilot and a graduate of the US Naval Academy, Stanford University, and the US Naval Test Pilot School. A US Marine, she has over 2,500 flight hours in 25 types of aircraft and 200 carrier landings, and has flown 47 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Nicole Mann
- Name (Japanese)
- ニコール・マン
- Reading
- にこーる・まん
- Born
- June 27, 1977 (age 48)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Snake
- Origin
- Petaluma, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- military officer / astronaut / association football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Rancho Cotate High School
- University
- Stanford University
Awards & achievements
- Air Medal
- Iraq Campaign Medal
- Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
- 2023 Women of the Year
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Military officer — see all → · Astronaut — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.