“It’s the job I never knew I always wanted. I’ve always wanted to work in human space flight but I really like the big picture,” said Nujoud Merancy, chief of the Exploration Mission Planning Office at Johnson Space Center.
“We get to play with putting things on the moon, and so it doesn’t really get much bigger than that,” Merancy said.
“So I was born and raised in Tumwater, Washington, a little south of where you’re at. Grew up, went to Tumwater High School. Total native Pacific Northwestern,” Merancy said.“Doing human spaceflight was always what I wanted to do and then now we actually get to go to the moon is the best part of all of it,” she said.
Merancy’s office helps put missions like Artemis together from space launches to landing on the moon, setting up on the surface and returning back to Earth. She helps engineer the mission, putting pieces together while making improvements.
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