Allison Mjoen, operations manager for NASA's Exploration Ground Systems, helped prepare the SLS rocket for Artemis missions. She reflects on her 20-year career supporting the Space Shuttle, ISS and now the Artemis programme.
01Summary
- 01Mjoen is NASA's operations manager for the Exploration Ground Systems programme at Kennedy Space Center.
- 02She began her career as a flight crew systems engineer with United Space Alliance on the Space Shuttle programme.
- 03After the shuttle programme retired, she worked as a payload integration engineer for the International Space Station.
- 04She served as Spacecraft Payloads Integration and Evolution Element lead for Artemis I.
- 05Mjoen now coordinates ground operations for Artemis vehicle processing, focusing on booster and Orion spacecraft operations.
02Why it matters
Mjoen's work directly supports the Artemis programme's goal of returning humans to the Moon, a mission that could inspire a new generation and expand space exploration.
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