NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Pilot Nichole Ayers | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Pilot Nichole Ayers | International Space Station

Astronaut Candidate Individual Portrait, Nichole Ayers - ASCAN Class of 2021

NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-10 Pilot Nichole Ayers prepares for spacewalk training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-10 Pilot Nichole Ayers is seated in a T-38 aircraft trainer during pre-flight mission training at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas.

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers walks on the tarmac toward a T-38 aircraft trainer.

NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-10 Pilot Nichole Ayers listens to a presentation during pre-flight mission training in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers poses for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

NASA astronaut candidate Nichole Ayers pictured here in an event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Nichole Ayers is currently training for her first spaceflight where she will serve as pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission. Four crew members are preparing to launch for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station.

NASA astronauts Commander Anne McClain and Pilot Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Russia will join astronauts at the orbiting laboratory no earlier than February 2025.

Astronaut Nichole Ayers NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/nasa-astronaut-nichole-ayers

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/nasa-astronaut-nichole-ayers/

The flight is the 10th crew rotation with SpaceX to the station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. While aboard, the international crew will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future missions and benefit people on Earth.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Image Credits: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Josh Valcarcel/Robert Markowitz

Release Dates: Dec. 3, 2021-Aug. 12, 2024

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