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Nicole Stott
Born(1962-11-19)November 19, 1962(age 61)
Albany, New York,U.S.
EducationSt. Petersburg College
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University(BS)
University of Central Florida(MS)
Space career
NASA astronaut
Time in space
103d 5h 49m[1]
SelectionNASA Group 18 (2000)
MissionsSTS-128
Expedition 20
Expedition 21
STS-129
STS-133
Mission insignia

Nicole Marie Passonno Stott(born November 19, 1962) is an Americanengineerand a retiredNASAastronaut.She served as a flight engineer on ISSExpedition 20andExpedition 21and was a mission specialist onSTS-128andSTS-133.[2]After 27 years of working at NASA, the space agency announced her retirement effective June 1, 2015.[3]She is married toChristopher Stott,aManx-born American space entrepreneur.

Early life and education[edit]

Stott was born inAlbany,New Yorkand resides inSt. Petersburg, Florida.She attendedSt. Petersburg Collegestudying aviation administration, graduated with aB.S.degree in aeronautical engineering fromEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical Universityin 1987, and received herM.S.degree in Engineering Management from theUniversity of Central Floridain 1992. Nicole Stott began her career in 1987 as a structural design engineer withPratt & WhitneyGovernment Engines inWest Palm Beach,Florida.She spent a year with the Advanced Engines Group performing structural analyses of advanced jet engine component designs. Stott is an instrument rated private pilot.

NASA career[edit]

Nicole Stott participates in an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU)spacesuitfit check.

In 1988, Stott joined NASA at theKennedy Space Center(KSC), Florida as an Operations Engineer in theOrbiter Processing Facility(OPF). After six months, she was detailed to the Director of Shuttle Processing as part of a two-person team tasked with assessing the overall efficiency of Shuttle processing flows, and implementing tools for measuring the effectiveness of improvements. She was the NASA KSC Lead for a joint Ames/KSC software project to develop intelligent scheduling tools. The Ground Processing Scheduling System (GPSS) was developed as the technology demonstrator for this project. GPSS was a success at KSC, and also a commercial success that is part of thePeopleSoftsuite of software products. During her time at KSC, Stott also held a variety of positions within NASA Shuttle Processing, including Vehicle Operations Engineer; NASA Convoy Commander; assistant to the Flow Director forSpace Shuttle Endeavour;and Orbiter Project Engineer for Columbia. During her last two years at KSC, she was a member of the Space Station Hardware Integration Office and relocated to Huntington Beach, California where she served as the NASA Project Lead for the ISS truss elements under construction at the Boeing Space Station facility. In 1998, she joined theJohnson Space Center(JSC) team in Houston, Texas as a member of the NASA Aircraft Operations Division, where she served as a Flight Simulation Engineer (FSE) on theShuttle Training Aircraft(STA).

Stott participates in the first spacewalk of the STS-128 mission.

Selected as a mission specialist by NASA in July 2000, Stott reported for astronaut candidate training in August 2000. Following the completion of two years of training and evaluation, she was assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Station Operations Branch, where she performed crew evaluations of station payloads. She also worked as a support astronaut andCAPCOMfor the ISSExpedition 10crew. In April 2006, she was a crew member on theNEEMO 9mission (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations) where she lived and worked with a six-person crew for 18 days on theAquariusundersea research habitat.[4]Stott was previously assigned toExpedition 20andExpedition 21.She was launched to theInternational Space Stationwith the crew ofSTS-128,participating in the firstspacewalkof that mission,[5]and returned onSTS-129,thus becoming the last Expedition crew-member to return to Earth via the space shuttle. Stott completed her second spaceflight onSTS-133,the third to last (antepenultimate) flight of the space shuttle.[6][7]

First live tweet-up from space[edit]

On October 21, 2009, Stott and her Expedition 21 crewmateJeff Williamsparticipated in the firstNASA Tweetupfrom the station with members of the public gathered atNASAHeadquarters inWashington, D.C.[8]This involved the firstliveTwitterconnection for the astronauts.[9]Previously, astronauts on board the Space Shuttle or ISS had sent the messages they desired to send as tweets down toMission Controlwhich then posted them via theInternetto Twitter.[10]

Post NASA[edit]

Stott was featured in a Super Bowl LIV commercial promotingGirls Who Code.[11]Stott has also written Back To Earth, described as "What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet and Our Mission to Protect It". She is also an artist and brought a small watercolor kit onISS Expedition 21where she was the first person to paint with watercolor in space. Her current works often relate to astronomy including her Earth Observation collection and Spacecraft collection.[12][13]In 2022, she is providing the narration to a piece being performed by the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra, Glen Cortese's "Voyager: A Journey to the Stars."[14]

References[edit]

  1. ^"Astronauts and Cosmonauts (sorted by" Time in Space ")".Spacefacts.January 21, 2012.RetrievedJanuary 26,2012.
  2. ^National Aeronautics and Space Administration(October 23, 2010)."NASA - Expedition 20".NASA.RetrievedJanuary 26,2012.
  3. ^Canales, Christina (June 5, 2015)."Astronaut Nicole Stott Retires From NASA".NASA.RetrievedMarch 22,2016.
  4. ^NASA (2006)."NASA's Undersea Crew is Heads Above Water".NASA.RetrievedSeptember 23,2011.
  5. ^NASA (August 2009)."STS-128 Mission Summary"(PDF).NASA.RetrievedJanuary 26,2012.
  6. ^NASA Newsroom (March 3, 2009)."NASA - NASA Announces Change for Return of Station Crew Members".NASA.RetrievedJanuary 26,2012.
  7. ^"collectSPACE - news -" NASA shuffles shuttle schedule: Endeavour to fly after Discovery for final planned flight "".collectSPACE.April 26, 2010.RetrievedJanuary 26,2012.
  8. ^Cioffi, Carla (October 21, 2009)."20091021 NASA Live Tweetup Event with International Space Station - a set on Flickr".NASA.RetrievedJanuary 26,2012.
  9. ^Yembrick, John (October 1, 2009)."NASA Hosts Long-Distance Tweetup with Astronauts on Space Station".NASA.RetrievedOctober 20,2009.
  10. ^Horowitz, Etan (May 22, 2009)."The great debate over Astro Mike's 'tweets from space'".The Orlando Sentinel.Archived fromthe originalon May 25, 2009.RetrievedOctober 2,2009.
  11. ^"Astronaut Nicole Stott on 'making space' in Olay Super Bowl ad".collectSPACE.January 30, 2020.RetrievedFebruary 12,2020.
  12. ^"Nicole Stott ~ The Artistic Astronaut".theartisticastronaut.RetrievedAugust 20,2021.
  13. ^"Artist".theartisticastronaut.RetrievedAugust 20,2021.
  14. ^Freedman, Geraldine (March 31, 2022)."Astronaut will narrate new piece at Schenectady Symphony concert".dailygazette.RetrievedMarch 31,2022.

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