Space · astronaut
Nichole Ayers
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
AMERICAN
ACTIVE
Career
Time in space
147 d 16 h
Spacewalks
1
5 h 44 m outside
Flights
1
1 landings
Status
Active
Nationality
AmericanBorn
01 Jan 1989First flight
14 Mar 2025Most recent flight
14 Mar 2025Type
GovernmentLinks
WikipediaBiography
Nichole Ayers is a US Air Force major who graduated from the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a minor in Russian. She later earned a master’s degree in computational and applied mathematics from Rice University. Ayers is an experienced combat aviator with more than 200 combat hours and more than 1,150 hours of total flight time in the T-38 and the F-22 Raptor fighter jet. Ayers led the first ever all-woman formation of the aircraft in combat.
Exact date of birth unknown.
Flight log
Flights
| No. | Flight | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-10 | 14 Mar 2025 |
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Source The Space Devs — Launch Library 2
Last checked 29 Sept 2026