Nicole Stott
Nicole Marie Passonno Stott is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She served as a Flight Engineer on ISS Expeditionand Expeditionand was a Mission Specialist on STS128 and STS133. Afteryears of working at NASA, the space agency announced her retirement effective June 1, 2015.
Stott was born in Albany, New York and resides in Seabrook, Texas. She attended St. Petersburg College studying aviation administration, graduated with a B.S. degree from EmbryRiddle Aeronautical University in 1987, and received her M.S. degree in Engineering Management from the University of Central Florida in 1992. Nicole Stott began her career in 1987 as a structural design engineer with Pratt amp Whitney Government Engines in West Palm Beach, Florida. She spent a year with the Advanced Engines Group performing structural analyses of advanced jet engine component designs. Stott is an instrument rated private pilot.
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