Education
Mann is an F/A 18 pilot and completed astronaut candidate training in July 2015. Mann grew up in Penngrove, California, and attended Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park, California.
Mann is an F/A 18 pilot and completed astronaut candidate training in July 2015. Mann grew up in Penngrove, California, and attended Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park, California.
Nicole Mann is a Major in the United States. Marine Corps. Originally from Penngrove, California, she is a graduate of the United States. Naval Academy, Stanford University and the United States. Naval Test Pilot School. Her father told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat that she didn"t show much interest in space as a child, but decided during her junior year in high school that she would attend the United States. Naval Academy after graduation.
Mann graduated from the United States. Naval Academy before earning a degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford University.
She completed United States. Naval Test Pilot School and went on to serve in Iraq. Before being accepted to National Aeronautics and Space Administration"s astronaut training program, she was stationed at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland as an F/A-18 fighter jet pilot.
In 2013, she was one of eight candidates selected from more than 6,300 applicants to train as a potential astronaut for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has said that Mann could be one of the first astronauts sent on a mission to an asteroid, or to Mars.