Nicole Marie Passonno Stott is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She is serving as a Flight Engineer on ISS Expedition 20 and Expedition 21.
Stott 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 en...
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Nicole Marie Passonno Stott is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She is serving as a Flight Engineer on ISS Expedition 20 and Expedition 21.
Stott 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. Stott is an instrument rated private pilot.
In 1988, Stott joined NASA at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida as an Operations Engineer in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF). After six 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...
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