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Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate

The Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate leads NASA’s human spaceflight and space-enabling activities across low Earth orbit, the Moon, and beyond. The directorate provides unified leadership for the agency’s systems, operations, and architectures to deliver on the next era of human spaceflight.

About the Directorate

In May 2026, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced an agencywide realignment to increase mission focus and move out on the National Space Policy. These changes positioned the agency to better deliver on the nation’s highest‑priority objectives with speed and efficiency. The realignment unified the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate and Space Operations Mission Directorate as the Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate.

A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.

Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon.

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Office of the Associate Administrator

Dr. Lori Glaze

Associate Administrator

Joel Montalbano, Associate Administrator for Space Operations (acting)

Joel R. Montalbano

Deputy Associate Administrator

Official Portrait Kelvin Manning

Kelvin Manning

Deputy Associate Administrator

Portrait of Brian Dewhurst, executive director, enterprise operations, for NASA’s Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate.

Brian Dewhurst

Executive Director, Enterprise Operations

Alesyn Lowry

Alesyn Lowry

Executive Director, Enterprise Strategy

Directorate Offices

Catherine Baroang

Director, Business Office

Portrait of Diana K. Oglesby, Director of the Mission Alignment & Integration Office for NASA's Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate

Diana K. Oglesby

Director, Mission Alignment and Integration Office

Official portrait of Alvin Drew on Thursday, July 11, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington.

Benjamin Alvin Drew

Director, NASA’s Space Traffic Operational Risk Management (STORM) Office

David Baumann

David K. Baumann

Director, Human Research Program

Directorate Programs

Dana Weigel manages NASA’s Low Earth Orbit Program

Dana Weigel

Manager, Low Earth Orbit Program

Jeremy W. Parsons

Manager, Artemis Program

Carlos García-Galán, program manager for the Moon Base

Carlos García-Galán

Program Manager, Moon Base

Portrait of Bradley Smith on Friday, April 21, 2017 at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Bradley Smith

Manager, Commercial Access to Space Program

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