Meet NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers, Crew-10 Pilot

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers is the pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission. This will be the first spaceflight for Ayers, who became a NASA astronaut in 2021. She is originally from Colorado Springs and Divide, Colorado. Ayers earned a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado and went on to earn a master’s degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University in Houston, Texas. She is an active duty major in the U.S. Air Force and has flown over 1,400 flight hours.