Nicole Stott
Nicole Stott | |
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NASA astronaut | |
Time in space | 103d 5h 49m[1] |
Selection | NASA Group 18 (2000) |
Missions | STS-128 Expedition 20 Expedition 21 STS-129 STS-133 |
Mission insignia |
Nicole Marie Passonno Stott (born November 19, 1962) is an American engineer and a retired NASA astronaut. She served as a flight engineer on ISS Expedition 20 and Expedition 21 and was a mission specialist on STS-128 and STS-133.[2] After 27 years of working at NASA, the space agency announced her retirement effective June 1, 2015.[3] She is married to Christopher Stott, a Manx-born American space entrepreneur.
Early life and education
Stott was born in
NASA career
In 1988, Stott joined NASA at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida as an Operations Engineer in the Orbiter 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 the PeopleSoft suite 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 for Space 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 the Johnson 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 the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA).
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 and
First live tweet-up from space
On October 21, 2009, Stott and her Expedition 21 crewmate
Post NASA
Stott was featured in a Super Bowl LIV commercial promoting Girls 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 on ISS Expedition 21 where 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
- ^ "Astronauts and Cosmonauts (sorted by "Time in Space")". Spacefacts. January 21, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (October 23, 2010). "NASA - Expedition 20". NASA. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ^ Canales, Christina (June 5, 2015). "Astronaut Nicole Stott Retires From NASA". NASA. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
- ^ NASA (2006). "NASA's Undersea Crew is Heads Above Water". NASA. Retrieved September 23, 2011.
- ^ NASA (August 2009). "STS-128 Mission Summary" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ^ NASA Newsroom (March 3, 2009). "NASA - NASA Announces Change for Return of Station Crew Members". NASA. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ^ "collectSPACE - news - "NASA shuffles shuttle schedule: Endeavour to fly after Discovery for final planned flight"". collectSPACE.com. April 26, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ^ Cioffi, Carla (October 21, 2009). "20091021 NASA Live Tweetup Event with International Space Station - a set on Flickr". NASA. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ^ Yembrick, John (October 1, 2009). "NASA Hosts Long-Distance Tweetup with Astronauts on Space Station". NASA. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
- The Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the originalon May 25, 2009. Retrieved October 2, 2009.
- ^ "Astronaut Nicole Stott on 'making space' in Olay Super Bowl ad". collectSPACE. January 30, 2020. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
- ^ "Nicole Stott ~ The Artistic Astronaut". theartisticastronaut. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
- ^ "Artist". theartisticastronaut. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
- ^ Freedman, Geraldine (March 31, 2022). "Astronaut will narrate new piece at Schenectady Symphony concert". dailygazette.com. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
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External links
- "NICOLE PASSONNO STOTT, NASA ASTRONAUT" (PDF). NASA. June 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
- Nicole Stott on Twitter
- Nicole Stott – Spacefacts biography
- Nicole Stott – Video-opinion (4:19) (NYT; April 26, 2020)