Nicole Marie Passonno Stott was born on November 19,1962 and is an American engineer and a retired NASA astronaut.
12 Facts About Nicole Stott
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Nicole Stott served as a flight engineer on ISS Expedition 20 and Expedition 21 and was a mission specialist on STS-128 and STS-133.
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Nicole Stott is married to Christopher Stott, a Manx-born American space entrepreneur.
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Nicole Stott spent a year with the Advanced Engines Group performing structural analyses of advanced jet engine component designs.
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In 1988, Nicole Stott joined NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida as an Operations Engineer in the Orbiter Processing Facility.
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Nicole Stott worked as a support astronaut and CAPCOM for the ISS Expedition 10 crew.
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Nicole Stott was previously assigned to Expedition 20 and Expedition 21.
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Nicole Stott was launched to the International Space Station with the crew of STS-128, participating in the first spacewalk of that mission, and returned on STS-129, thus becoming the last Expedition crew-member to return to Earth via the space shuttle.
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Nicole Stott completed her second spaceflight on STS-133, the third to last flight of the space shuttle.
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Nicole Stott was featured in a Super Bowl LIV commercial promoting Girls Who Code.
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Nicole Stott has written Back To Earth, described as "What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet and Our Mission to Protect It".
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Nicole Stott is an artist and brought a small watercolor kit on ISS Expedition 21 where she was the first person to paint with watercolor in space.