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wonder.Most astronauts these days are fairly anonymous, and chances are you have never heard of Nichole Ayers
And that's OK.But sometimes it's worth pausing for a moment to reflect on just how accomplished these people are
Ayers, 36, flew the supersonic F-22 stealth aircraft in the international war against the Islamic State and rose to become a major in the US
Air Force before being selected as a NASA astronaut in 2021
Oh, yeah, she also completed a master's degree in computational and applied mathematics at Rice University.For her first spaceflight, Ayers
launched on the Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station in March
This flight got a fair amount of media attention, but that was largely because the arrival of Crew-10 allowed the Crew Dragon spacecraft to
which Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were assigned to return home
Since then, Ayers has spent 50 days in space, astronauting
This included a spacewalk last week, her first, alongside veteran astronaut Anne McClain.As they returned to the airlock, the Earth below
started to put on a lightning show, and Ayers took note, mesmerized
A day later, she picked up a camera and captured some additional lightning strikes, saying, "I am so amazed by the view we have up here of
