Nicole Aunapu Mann, a star for Coach Carin Gabarra‘s Naval Academy team in the 1990s, explains how soccer prepared her for flying F/A-18s and becoming one of the 44active NASA astronauts qualified for future assignment, which could include missions in the International Space Station.

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