August 12, 2025

Nichole Ayers, MA '13:
On August 9, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers returned to earth after ending a 148-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) as a member of SpaceX Crew-10.  It was her first spaceflight.  She earned a master’s degree in computational and applied mathematics from Rice in 2013.  Read more.

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