--- title: First Native-American Woman in Space on Earth's Fragility description: Nicole Mann gives her first interview from the International Space Station. 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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 05: Crew-5 member NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann departs for Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on October 05, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Getty Images; 2022 Getty Images  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Oct 20, 2022 7:47 PM UTC Nicole Mann, a member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, has long treasured the dream catcher her mother gave her when she was a child, and does not discount the help it offered her when she flew 47 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, beginning in 2003. Earlier this month, Mann, 45, now a NASA astronaut, blasted off aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS), becoming the first Native-American woman in [space](https://time.com/tag/space/). And her dream catcher came along for the ride. Since her launch on Oct. 5, the media have been clamoring to talk to her and this week she gave her first interview, to the [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/space-exploration-science-native-americans-140207d4eaa918dc50e33e8c09b8b7bc)—and spoke of the power she draws from her tribal community on Earth. “It’s the strength to know that I have the support of my family and community back home and that when things are difficult or … I’m getting burned-out or frustrated, that strength is something that I will draw on,” she said. As for the famed “overview effect”—the sense of awe astronauts describe upon looking down on the Earth from space—Mann experienced it straightaway. “It is an incredible scene of color, of clouds and land,” she said, “and it’s difficult not to stay in the cupola all day and just see our planet Earth and how beautiful she is, and how delicate and fragile she is.” That overview perspective is especially important as a war continues to rage on the surface of our planet, with Russian troops now in the ninth month of their invasion of Ukraine. The crew aboard the ISS includes three Russian cosmonauts, three American astronauts, and one astronaut from Japan—and the power of that [international collaboration](https://time.com/6220640/us-russian-space-station-collaboration/) is not lost on Mann. “What that does,” she says, “is just highlight our diversity and how incredible it is when we come together as a human species, the wonderful things that we can do and that we can accomplish.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6223497/nicole-mann-astronaut-speaks-from-space/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6223497/nicole-mann-astronaut-speaks-from-space/"},"headline":"Speaking From Orbit, the First Native-American Woman in Space Reflects on Earth's Fragility","datePublished":"2022-10-20T19:47:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T14:55:02.932Z","description":"Nicole Mann gives her first interview from the International Space Station","url":"https://time.com/6223497/nicole-mann-astronaut-speaks-from-space/","keywords":["Space","healthscienceclimate"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted92056be33ae19a/698a368e47ca384cd43ba1ba/Nicole-Mann.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeffrey Kluger","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted92056be33ae19a/698a368e47ca384cd43ba1ba/Nicole-Mann.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"SpaceX Crewed Mission Launches To International Space Station","caption":"SpaceX Crewed Mission Launches To International Space Station","creditText":"Getty Images; 2022 Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6223497/nicole-mann-astronaut-speaks-from-space/","name":"Speaking From Orbit, the First Native-American Woman in Space Reflects on Earth's Fragility"}}]}] ```