NASA has chosen Carlos Garcia-Galan as deputy supervisor for the Gateway Program. Garcia-Galan beforehand served as supervisor of the Orion Program’s European Service Module Integration Workplace at Glenn Analysis Heart.
“I’m tremendously excited to tackle this new function and assist lead improvement of humanity’s first outpost in deep area,” Garcia-Galan stated. “I’m honored to affix a top-class Gateway workforce world wide, as the primary components of the advanced transfer towards completion.”
Garcia-Galan brings greater than 27 years of human spaceflight expertise to the function. A local of Malaga, Spain, his profession consists of supporting meeting of the Worldwide House Station as a flight controller in Houston and Korolev, Russia, throughout a number of House Shuttle-Worldwide House Station meeting flights. He joined the Orion program in 2010, serving in quite a lot of key technical and administration roles, together with administration of built-in spacecraft design and efficiency, mission evaluation, cross-program integration, and launch and flight operations assist.
“Carlos is an excellent supervisor and engineer, and I’m extraordinarily happy to announce his choice for this place,” stated Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA’s Johnson House Heart. “His wealth of expertise in human spaceflight, worldwide partnerships, and the event and operations of deep-space spacecraft shall be an enormous asset to Gateway.”
Whereas with the Orion Program, Garcia-Galan had a key function making ready the Orion workforce for the Artemis I mission by establishing the Orion Mission Analysis Room (MER) idea of operations and main the workforce by way of the Artemis I flight preparations till he transitioned into his function managing ESM integration. He later served as one of many Artemis I MER Leads supporting real-time flight operations through the profitable Artemis I mission.
“Carlos brings an incredible technical background and in depth management expertise that can drastically profit our program, augmenting our robust workforce as we progress in direction of deploying the lunar Gateway,” stated Gateway Program Supervisor Jon Olansen.
All through his profession, Garcia-Galan has been acknowledged for his achievements, together with receiving, the Honeywell House Methods Engineer of the Yr (Houston) award, the NASA Silver Achievement Medal, the Distinctive Achievement Medal, the Johnson House Heart Director’s Commendation, the Orion Program Supervisor’s Commendation, and the Silver Snoopy Award.
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