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Read the biographies for some of the leaders behind NASA's Exploration Ground Systems at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A portrait of Shawn Quinn, newly selected manager of the Exploration Ground Systems.

Shawn Quinn

As the program manager of NASA Kennedy Space Center's Exploration Ground Systems Program, Shawn Quinn has overall responsibility for developing the necessary ground systems while refurbishing and upgrading infrastructure and facilities to meet tomorrow's demands.

Jeremy W. Parsons serves as the deputy manager of NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program.

Jeremy W. Parsons

As the deputy manager for the Exploration Ground Systems Program, Jeremy Parsons assists the program manager in management, leadership and direction to ensure safe and effective execution of all EGS Program systems development, processing and integration requirements and the implementation of Kennedy Space Center's goals and objectives.

The official portrait for Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, launch director for NASA's Exploration Ground Systems.

Charlie Blackwell-Thompson

Charlie Blackwell-Thompson serves as launch director for NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program. She oversaw the countdown and liftoff of NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft during its first flight test, called Artemis I.

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Scott B. Wilson

Scott B. Wilson serves in a cross-program role as manager of production operations for the Orion Program and of offline processing and infrastructure development for the Exploration Ground Systems Program.

Darrell R. Foster is the ground systems integration manager for Kennedy Space Center's Exploration Ground Systems Program

Darrell Foster

Darrell Foster is the ground systems integration manager (GSIM) with the Exploration Ground Systems Program where he manages the simultaneous development, verification and validation, activation, and sustaining engineering of exploration development projects.

A portrait of Kennedy Space Center's Cliff Lanham.

Clifton Lanham

Cliff Lanham is the senior vehicle operations manager for NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program. In this role, he is responsible for the overall management, planning, integration, and execution of all operational activities required for the launch readiness of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket on Artemis deep space flight missions.

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Chad Brown

Chad Brown is the division chief for the Future Projects Office in NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program. In this position, Brown is focused on supporting future Artemis campaign efforts and providing the strategic framework for how the unique skills developed in EGS can be leveraged to make the enterprise more successful.

Melissa Jones is the Artemis I landing and recovery director for the Exploration Ground Systems program at Kennedy.

Melissa Jones

As the division chief of Operations and Test Management for the Exploration Ground Systems Program, Jones is responsible for all staffing, resources, and facilities used for flight hardware processing, launch, and recovery for Artemis missions.

Anton Kiriwas is the senior technical integration manager for NASA's Exploration Ground Systems program at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Anton Kiriwas

Anton Kiriwas is the senior technical integration manager for the Exploration Ground Systems Program and is responsible for technical decisions and approving the program technical baseline.

Kennedy Space Center's Allison Mjoen is photographed with the Vehicle Assembly Building in the background.

Allison Mjoen

Allison Mjoen is an operations project engineer whose responsibilities include the development and implementation planning of operations and launch requirements for vehicle/payload processing, launch, and recovery.

A photo of Kennedy Space Center's Wes Mosedale with the Vehicle Assembly Building in the background.

Wes Mosedale

As the technical assistant to the Artemis I launch director, Wes Mosedale assists the launch director in the technical coordination of launch-related content with the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, and for the integration of launch-related requirements.