Mann is the first Native American woman in space.
On a mission she's commanding to the International Space Station, the NASA astronauts launched into Earth's orbit on Wednesday.
The Round Valley Indian tribes have a member named Mann. She said she was going with her mother's dream catcher to the International Space Station.
Mann told The Wall Street Journal that she would keep that with her when she was in space.
Along with her are astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and Russia's lone female cosmonaut, Anna Kikina. There is only one person who has been to space before.
Mann told mission control that the ride up was a smooth one. Three rookies are floating in space right now, and one veteran is happy to be back as well.
A colonel in the Marines, Mann has worked on aircraft carriers supporting combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. She was the first woman to become anastrologer.
She told the Journal that she was interested in math and science as a child, but didn't realize that she could become an astronauts.
She said there are people who still grow up in communities where there are boundaries. Hopefully, that will empower them to pursue their dreams if they can see that the boundaries are being broken down.
The first Native American to reach space was John Herrington.
Mann is going to space for the first time. She is scheduled to fly on the first crewed test mission of Boeing's Starliner spaceship, which was developed through the same NASA program that created Crew Dragon. An uncrewed test mission to the International Space Station is needed before NASA fills it with astronauts.
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