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15K views · 723 reactions | A four-member SpaceX Crew Dragon team, including Nicole Aunapu Mann, the first Native American woman sent to orbit, safely docked with the International Space Station and moved aboard to begin a five-month science mission https://reut.rs/3T7bDV0 | Reuters | Facebook

This is the moment Nicole Mann became the first Native American woman astronaut to ever board the International Space Station. Mann, who is of Wailaki heritage, was a Naval pilot prior to joining NASA. Among the 3 lbs of personal items she was allowed to take onto the ISS, she reportedly brought a dreamcatcher her mother gave her as a child. | NowThis