Nicole P. Stott

Infobox Astronaut
name =Nicole P. Stott


type =NASA Astronaut
status =Active
nationality =American
date_birth =November 19, 1962
place_birth =Albany, New York
occupation =
selection =2000 NASA Group
time =
mission =Expedition 19
insignia =|

Nicole Marie Passonno Stott is a NASA astronaut. She has been assigned as a Flight Engineer on Expedition 19. [Cite web| url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/feb/HQ_08052_Crew_Announcements.html|title=NASA Assigns Crews for STS-127 and Expedition 19 Missions |accessyear=2008|accessmonthday=February 11| publisher=NASA| year=2008| author=NASA]

Life and career

She was born in Albany, New York and resides in Clearwater, Florida. She graduated from Embry-Riddle 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 & 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. Nicole Stott is an instrument rated private pilot.

NASA experience

In 1988, Nicole Stott joined NASA at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida as an Operations Engineer in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF). After 6 months, she was detailed to the Director of Shuttle Processing as part of a two-person team tasked with assessing the overall efficiency of Shuttle processing flows, and implementing tools for measuring the effectiveness of improvements. She was the NASA KSC Lead for a joint Ames/KSC software project to develop intelligent scheduling tools. The Ground Processing Scheduling System (GPSS) was developed as the technology demonstrator for this project. GPSS was a success at KSC, and also a commercial success that is part of the PeopleSoft suite of software products. During her time at KSC, Ms. Stott also held a variety of positions within NASA Shuttle Processing, including Vehicle Operations Engineer; NASA Convoy Commander; Shuttle Flow Director for Endeavour; and Orbiter Project Engineer for Columbia. During her last two years at KSC, she was a member of the Space Station Hardware Integration Office and relocated to Huntington Beach, CA where she served as the NASA Project Lead for the ISS truss elements under construction at the Boeing Space Station facility. In 1998, she joined the Johnson Space Center (JSC) team in Houston, TX as a member of the NASA Aircraft Operations Division, where she served as a Flight Simulation Engineer (FSE) on the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA).

Selected as a mission specialist by NASA in July 2000, Nicole reported for astronaut candidate training in August 2000. Following the completion of two years of training and evaluation, she was assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Station Operations Branch, where she performed crew evaluations of station payloads. She also worked as a support astronaut and CAPCOM for the ISS Expedition 10 crew. In April 2006 she was a crew member on the NEEMO 9 mission (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations) where she lived and worked with a 6 person crew for 18 days on the Aquarius undersea research habitat. Nicole is currently assigned to Expedition-19 and is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station with the crew of STS-128 and return on a Soyuz flight.

References

External links

* [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/stott-np.html NASA bio]
* [http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/stott_nicole.htm Spacefacts biography of Nicole P. Stott]