Nichole Ayers

American - (NASA)

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Date of Birth: Jan. 1, 1989
Age: 36

Nichole Ayers is a US Air Force major who graduated from the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a minor in Russian. She later earned a master’s degree in computational and applied mathematics from Rice University. Ayers is an experienced combat aviator with more than 200 combat hours and more than 1,150 hours of total flight time in the T-38 and the F-22 Raptor fighter jet. Ayers led the first ever all-woman formation of the aircraft in combat. Exact date of birth unknown.

Spaceflight Record

Nichole Ayers flew on one previous launch(es).

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-10

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 14, 2025, 11:03 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

SpaceX Crew-10 is the tenth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Low Earth Orbit B1090 - Flight Proven ( ) Landing Zone 1

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