Nicole Marie Passonno Stott (born November 19, 1962) is an American engineer and a retired NASA astronaut.

In 1988, Stott joined NASA at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida as an Operations Engineer in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF).

Selected as a mission specialist by NASA in July 2000, Stott reported for astronaut candidate training in August 2000.

[9] Previously, astronauts on board the Space Shuttle or ISS had sent the messages they desired to send as tweets down to Mission Control which then posted them via the Internet to Twitter.

[11] Stott has also written Back To Earth, described as "What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet and Our Mission to Protect It".

[12][13] In 2022, she is providing the narration to a piece being performed by the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra, Glen Cortese's "Voyager: A Journey to the Stars.