{"id":568522,"date":"2023-11-21T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?post_type=image-article&p=568522"},"modified":"2023-11-21T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T17:15:09","slug":"astronaut-nicole-mann-prepares-for-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"image-article","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/astronaut-nicole-mann-prepares-for-spacewalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Nicole Mann Prepares for Spacewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iss068e040060orig.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iss068e040060orig.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Astronaut Nicole Mann faces the camera and smiles. She is wearing a white spacesuit, which has an American flag patch on the left arm, and another patch on the right arm.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iss068e040060orig.jpg 5568w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iss068e040060orig.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iss068e040060orig.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iss068e040060orig.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iss068e040060orig.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iss068e040060orig.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iss068e040060orig.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iss068e040060orig.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iss068e040060orig.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iss068e040060orig.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/iss068e040060orig.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-credits\">JAXA \/ Koichi Wakata<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 flight engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/nicole-a-mann\/\">Nicole Mann<\/a> is pictured during a fit check of her spacesuit on Jan. 12, 2023, ahead of a planned spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station’s power generation system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selected as an astronaut candidate in June 2013, Mann is the first Native American woman from NASA in space. In 2018, she was chosen as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/nasa-assigns-first-crews-to-fly-commercial-spacecraft\">one of the nine astronauts<\/a> to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon. In her first spaceflight, she launched to the International Space Station as commander of NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-5 mission aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on Oct. 5, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While aboard the orbital laboratory, Mann executed two spacewalks totaling 14 hours and two minutes. She also supported two spacewalks as the robotic arm operator and captured the NG-18 cargo resupply spacecraft, <em>S.S. Sally Ride<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/gallery\/native-american-heritage-month\/\">View our Native American Heritage Month gallery.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image Credit: JAXA\/Koichi Wakata<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 flight engineer Nicole Mann is pictured during a fit check of her spacesuit on Jan. 12, 2023, ahead of a planned spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station’s power generation system. Selected as an astronaut candidate in June 2013, Mann is the first Native American woman from NASA in space. 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