First space-bound Wailaki of Round Valley Indian Tribes woman: Nicole Aunapu Mann

NASA Artemis Mission Commander, Major, U.S. Marine Corps, Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann is currently set for launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled to dock with the International Space Station no sooner than September 2022.

At the upper boundary of humanity's technological limit where NASA operates, new "firsts" are part and parcel in such rarified air, causing The Martian's Mark Watney to voice:

It's a strange feeling.

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