I Am Artemis Tom Percy

According to NASA News, Tom Percy manages systems engineering and integration for the agency's Human Landing System Program, coordinating the effort to accelerate Artemis lunar exploration. He works directly with SpaceX and Blue Origin to ensure their crewed landers are properly designed, built, tested, and will integrate safely with NASA's other exploration systems. His path to this role is particularly interesting: he started out leading a college rover team in NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge before earning an aerospace doctorate and joining NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in twenty oh three. Now, as NASA increases the pace of Artemis missions following the recent success of Artemis II, Percy's coordination work will be essential to safely landing astronauts on the Moon and building toward the first crewed missions to Mars.

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