Colombian Diana Trujillo to be NASA’s flight chief

Colombian engineer Diana Trujillo will be one of the flight leaders who will oversee the US space agency NASA’s program to return to the moon, known as Artemis, as well as the operations of the missions of the NASA. International Space Station (ISS) and commercial crew.

NASA reported on Wednesday that Trujillo, age 39 and the first Latino woman to be part of that agency’s Academy program, had been selected to lead manned spaceflights from the Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center in the United States. POT in Houston, Texas.

Born in 1983 in Cali, Colombia, Trujillo is part of a new group consisting of Heidi Brewer, Ronak Dave, Chris Dobbins, Garrett Hehn, Nicole McElroy and Elias Myrmo.

The seven will “lead teams of flight controllers, research and technical experts and support staff around the world and make decisions in real time,” the agency said.

Source: El heraldo

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