Nicole Passonno Stott

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Nicole Stott
Nicole Stott
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on July 26, 2000
( 18th NASA Group )
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		August 29, 2009
Landing of the
last space flight: 		March 9, 2011
Time in space: 103d 5h 49min
EVA inserts: 1
EVA total duration: 6h 35min
retired on May 31, 2015
Space flights

Nicole Marie Passonno Stott (* 19 November 1962 as Nicole Marie Passonno in Albany , New York , USA ) is a former astronaut from the US space agency NASA .

education

1980 Stott finished the Clearwater High School in Clearwater ( Florida ). She received her bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1987 . In 1992 she received her Master from the University of Central Florida as an industrial engineer .

From 1987 Stott worked for Pratt and Whitney Government Engines in West Palm Beach (Florida). From 1988 she worked as an engineer in the Kennedy Space Center in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) and after six months was assigned to the director for the preparation of the space shuttle.

In 1998 she joined the NASA Aircraft Operations Division at the Johnson Space Center , where she worked as an engineer for flight simulation with the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA). The STA is a Gulfstream II jet that has been modified so that its flight characteristics and operation are similar to those of a space shuttle on landing.

Astronaut activity

Nicole Stott in an EMU space suit

Stott was introduced by NASA as an astronaut candidate in July 2000. Her training to become a mission specialist lasted two years and ended in the summer of 2002.

In April 2006 she was a crew member of the NEEMO-9 mission , an underwater research habitat of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) off the coast of Florida, where she worked for 18 days.

ISS expeditions 20 and 21

Stott was a member of Expeditions 20 and 21 of the International Space Station . Your start for this was on August 29, 2009 with STS-128 . Stott was the last ISS crew member to take off on a space shuttle . The landing was initially planned with the Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz TMA-15 , but was then postponed to STS-129 and took place on November 27, 2009.

STS-133

On September 18, 2009, Stott was nominated as a mission specialist for the STS-133 mission to the ISS. The flight was the last of the orbiter Discovery and lasted from February 24 to March 9, 2011.

On June 5, 2015, NASA announced that Stott had left the agency on May 31, 2015.

Private

Nicole Stott is married and has one son.

Since she stopped working for NASA, she has been working on artistically editing images that she took in space.

See also

Web links

Commons : Nicole P. Stott  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katherine Trinidad, Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters: NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering. NASA, November 21, 2008, accessed November 21, 2008 .
  2. ^ Katherine Trinidad, Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters, Michael Curie: NASA Announces Change for Return of Station Crew Members. NASA, March 3, 2009, accessed June 3, 2009 .
  3. ↑ NASA names crew for final space shuttle mission. Spaceflight Now, September 18, 2009, accessed September 19, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Michael Majchrowicz: Clearwater's Nicole Stott takes on art as post-NASA career. Tampa Bay Times, July 9, 2015, accessed October 18, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Stott, Nicole Passonno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stott, Nicole Marie Passonno (full name); Passonno, Nicole Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Albany , New York