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NICOLE PASSONNO STOTT
NASA ASTRONAUT (MISSION SPECIALIST)
PERSONAL DATA: Born in Albany, New York. Her hometown is Clearwater, Florida. She enjoys flying, snow skiing, SCUBA diving, woodworking, painting, and gardening.
EDUCATION:
Clearwater High School, Clearwater, Florida, 1980.
B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 1987.
M.S., Engineering Management, University of Central Florida, 1992.
EXPERIENCE: Ms. Stott began her career in 1987 as a structural design engineer with Pratt and Whitney Government Engines in West Palm Beach, FL. 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, Ms. 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, identifying and implementing process improvements, 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 is still in use today for OPF scheduling, 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 Stott 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. She will serve in technical assignments until assigned to a space flight.
APRIL 2004
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