Vanessa E. Wyche

Vanessa E. Wyche is the director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), home to the United States’ astronaut corps, the Mission Control Center, and more than 11,000 civil service and contractor employees. She is responsible for overseeing a broad range of human spaceflight activities, including development and operation of human spacecraft, commercialization of low-Earth orbit and JSC’s role in landing the first woman and first person of color on the surface of the Moon. Wyche previously served as deputy director at JSC, a position she held since 2018.