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  • Vice President Kamala Harris Calls NASA Astronaut Victor Glover

    Vice President Kamala Harris Calls NASA Astronaut Victor Glover

    U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris placed a special phone call to space this week when she spoke with astronaut Victor Glover who is aboard the International Space Station.

    Glover, a crew member of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission, is the first African American astronaut to fly on a commercial spacecraft, and the first African American to fly a long-term mission aboard the orbiting laboratory. This is his first spaceflight since being selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013.

    Learn more about Glover by visiting https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/victor-j-glover/biography

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  • NASA Black History Month Employee Profile – Matthew Bailey

    NASA Black History Month Employee Profile – Matthew Bailey

    Matthew Bailey is the operations manager for the National Transonic Facility Complex at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Bailey began his career at NASA as an intern and now works in a management role. He oversees the operations at two cryogenic wind tunnels that specialize in high Reynolds number or flight Reynolds number testing – world’s best at matching scaling effects of aerodynamic problems. The facility is currently testing a model of the Space Launch System, the rocket that will send humans to the Moon by 2024.

  • NASA 2017 Women’s History Month Profile – Steffi Valkov, AFRC

    NASA 2017 Women’s History Month Profile – Steffi Valkov, AFRC

    Steffi Valkov is a Flight Operations Engineer at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. Steffi’s current project, UAS Integration in the NAS, has her fulfilling multiple roles which include leading flight operations working groups, developing flight test scenarios, and control room duties.

  • NASA Women’s History Month Profile – Valerie Wiesner (Glenn Research Center)

    NASA Women’s History Month Profile – Valerie Wiesner (Glenn Research Center)

    Dr. Valerie Wiesner is a materials research engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. She is responsible for evaluating high-temperature interactions between Calcium-Magnesium Aluminosilicate and Environmental Barrier Coating materials for aircraft turbine engine development.

  • NASA Women’s History Month Profile, Karin Bozak – Glenn Research Center

    NASA Women’s History Month Profile, Karin Bozak – Glenn Research Center

    Karin Bozak is an electrical engineer in the power systems branch at the NASA Glenn Research Center. In her current job she supports the design, integration, and test of a power-processing unit for NASA’s solar electric propulsion project.

  • 2014 NASA African-American History Month Profile: Charles Doxley, Glenn Research Center

    2014 NASA African-American History Month Profile: Charles Doxley, Glenn Research Center

    Charles Doxley is an electronics engineer at the NASA Glenn Research Center. His work for the avionics division includes working on a project that tests future space radios to make sure they are compatible with NASA’s spacecraft tracking and data relay satellite system. Doxley earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Albany State University in Albany, Georgia and a Master’s Degree from Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama.

  • NASA 2012 Hispanic Heritage Month Profile — Luis Dominguez – Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    NASA 2012 Hispanic Heritage Month Profile — Luis Dominguez – Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    Luis Dominguez is a systems engineer in the Systems Integration and Test Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California (JPL). Dominguez is a Test Conductor/Analyst for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mission System Testbed Team. He started at JPL as an academic part time employee in the fall of 2007 working for the MSL Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations (ATLO) Team and subsequently moved to the Testbed team in 2009. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California in the Leimert Park/Mid-City area. Luis holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

  • NASA Asian-American History Month Profile — Allen Chen

    NASA Asian-American History Month Profile — Allen Chen

    Allen Chen is a systems engineer in the Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) Systems and Advanced Technologies group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (JPL). On the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team, he is the lead for EDL operations and Flight Dynamics, co-leads the joint science/engineering Mars atmosphere characterization team. Chen has been a member of the MSL EDL Systems Engineering Team and the MSL Flight System Systems Engineering Team since his arrival at JPL in 2002. He also worked on the Mars Exploration Rovers project, performing EDL reconstruction analysis and testing. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

  • NASA African-American History Month Profile – Darrius Lewis

    NASA African-American History Month Profile – Darrius Lewis

    Darrius Lewis is an Emergency Preparedness Officer and Continuity of Operations Program Manager at NASA Headquarters. He is responsible for overseeing the Continuity Of Operations Program at NASA Headquarters as well as the functionality of the Emergency Notification System. He is charged with strategically planning for man-made and natural disasters to minimize any impact to NASA personnel, so that NASA workers and leadership can continue to conduct the business of NASA.

  • NASA African-American History Month Profile- Rhonda Baker

    NASA African-American History Month Profile- Rhonda Baker

    Rhonda Baker is the Associate Director for Center Operations at Ames Research Center. She has been working in Federal government positions since the age of 16. She came to Ames as a procurement specialist in 1998, and worked in support of several research areas, including the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI). She is now the Associate Director for Center Operations at Ames Research Center.