I Am Artemis: Tom Percy

NASA News profiles Tom Percy, manager of systems engineering and integration for NASA's Human Landing System Program. He oversees coordination between the agency and commercial lander providers SpaceX and Blue Origin, ensuring Artemis crewed landers are safely designed, tested, and integrated with other NASA exploration assets. Percy's career spans twenty-three years at Marshall Space Flight Center, beginning with a student moonbuggy competition at Rochester Institute of Technology, followed by an aerospace engineering degree from Georgia Tech. As NASA accelerates increasingly complex Artemis missions toward deeper lunar exploration and eventual human missions to Mars, Percy's systems engineering work ensures all the pieces come together.

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