Emily Nelson is the new chief flight director at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Nelson leads 31 active flight directors and flight directors-in-training who oversee human spaceflight from NASA's Mission Control.
who left the position last year to help lead the Gateway Program that's developing a space station to orbit the moon.Nelson was selected as a flight director in 2007, and she was previously deputy chief flight director. She was born in Okinawa, Japan, and raised in Austin, Texas. She earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998.
“Being a flight director is about accepting great responsibility and exercising excellent leadership and judgment – responsibility for the mission, for your team, and for the astronauts we fly,” Norm Knight, the agency’s director of flight operations who selected Nelson for the position, said in a statement. “Emily’s tenure leading our flight control teams has proven that she is remarkably knowledgeable on the realities of human spaceflight and eminently composed when facing daunting challenges.
"She is unequivocally the right person to lead our flight director office," he said,"as we endeavor to push the boundaries of human spaceflight exploration.”
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