{"id":23007,"date":"2020-12-17T20:52:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T12:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/meet-the-mission-manager-for-the-historic-crew-1-launch\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T20:52:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T12:52:11","slug":"meet-the-mission-manager-for-the-historic-crew-1-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/meet-the-mission-manager-for-the-historic-crew-1-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the mission manager for the historic Crew-1 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image wp-block-image--obfuscated\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1200\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"8888\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2020\/12\/16\/meet-the-mission-manager-for-the-historic-crew-1-launch\/nasa-building2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"NASA Building(2)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1024\"><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of you have probably never heard the name Nicole Jordan despite her being instrumental in the recent Crew-1 mission. She was the mission manager for the launch, bringing together all the different departments to make sure that it went off without a hitch, which, thanks to her, it did.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-8875\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jordan has played an important role within NASA for quite some time. About a decade ago, she was designing spacesuits for NASA\u2019s Constellation program, which had the goal of returning humans to the moon by 2020. Sadly for Jordan, this program was scrapped by the Obama administration in 2010, smashing her dreams. Jordan described the moment to <em>Vice<\/em> as being \u201cthe absolute low of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jordan had worked extremely hard to get to that point in her career. She had interned at NASA from high school through college as she worked to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. From there, she went on to earn two master\u2019s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Eventually, she landed a job at NASA in 2006.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image wp-block-image--obfuscated\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png\" alt=\"Site default logo image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Constellation was canceled, Jordan pushed forward in her career and became the mission manager for Crew-1. Jordan describes the job as \u201ctrying to keep tabs on the engineering, the operations, the crew training, and the hardware production: What is the critical path of the schedule? What are the major problems that need to be solved?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-8875',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to Jordan\u2019s knowledge and effort, the Crew-1 mission went exactly as planned. She had played an essential role in launching the first operational crewed flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. \u201cI do hope that it can be a bit of a bright spot that can make people forget about all the terrible things that have happened this year for a little bit,\u201d Jordan stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Via <em>Vice<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"enjoy-reading-space-explored\">Enjoy reading Space Explored?<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you have probably never heard the name Nicole Jordan despite her being instrumental in the recent Crew-1 mission. She was the mission manager for the launch, bringing together all the different departments to make sure that it went off without a hitch, which, thanks to her, it did. 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