Nicole Stott
Nicole Stott is a veteran NASA Astronaut with two spaceflights and 104 days living and working in space as a crewmember on both the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle. Personal highlights of her time in space were performing a spacewalk (10th woman to do so), flying the robotic arm to capture the first HTV (an automated cargo spacecraft used to resupply the ISS), working with her international crew in support of the multi-disciplinary science onboard the orbiting laboratory, painting a watercolor (on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum), and of course the view of our home planet out the window.
She is also a NASA Aquanaut. In preparation for spaceflight, she was a crewmember on an 18-day saturation dive mission at the Aquarius undersea laboratory. After her retirement from NASA, she co-founded the Space for Art Foundation, and now lives in Florida with her husband, son, and two dogs. Her first book, Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet – And our Mission to Protect It was published in October, 2021.
It was wonderful to talk with Nicole about her life, work and faith, and we are excited to share our conversation with you.
Interview by Laura Locke
Time: 44:16
All images courtesy of Nicole Stott and the NASA Images Archive.
Visit Nicole’s website, and also find out more about the Space for Art Foundation.
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