Dana Weigel, Deputy ISS Program Manager

Dana Weigel is presently serving as the International Space Station (ISS) Deputy Program Manager. Weigel shares responsibility with the ISS Program Manager for the day-to-day management, development, integration, and operation of the International Space Station.

Prior to her role as the Deputy Program Manager, Weigel served as the ISS Vehicle Office Manager responsible for sustaining, sparing and developing space station vehicle systems and payload facility hardware, managing the vehicle risks, and integrating commercial and international partner elements into the station.

Previously, Weigel served as the Deputy Chief of the Flight Director Office from 2012 through 2014. During that time, she led the Extravehicular Activity Recovery Team responsible for investigating and recovering from a major spacewalk in-flight anomaly. Prior to that, she spent 2011 to 2012 serving as Deputy Manager of the Mission Operations Space Transportation Division. From 2010 to 2011 she led a NASA Headquarters-sponsored Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite servicing habitat study. This multi-center, multi-agency team focused on assessing capabilities and technologies needed to repair satellites, perform spacewalks, and live in GEO.

Weigel was also a NASA Flight Director from 2004 through 2014. During this time from 2006 to 2009, she served as lead NASA Flight Director for Expedition 13, the STS-123 (1J/A) mission which delivered major Canadian and Japanese elements, and the first H-IIB Transfer Vehicle (HTV) mission. Weigel was the lead ISS Flight Director from 2008 through 2011.

Weigel started her career with Barrios Technology in 1994 as an Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Officer and became a NASA civil servant in 2004. She was appointed ISS Deputy Program Manager on June 20, 2021.

Weigel holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University.