Flight Operations Directorate
The Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center touches every program and part of sending humans to space. The people who serve this program work to train astronauts in a variety of facilities on land, in spacecraft mockups, under water in NASA’s enormous Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL), and in the air in T-38 jet aircraft.
Preparing to Launch
Artemis I I
WE ARE GOING
NASA Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA Astronaut Jeremy Hansen are preparing to venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis.
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Flight Operations Leadership
Meet the Flight Operations Director
FOD is responsible for providing trained astronaut crew members and for overall planning, directing, managing, and implementing overall mission operations for NASA human spaceflight programs. FOD is also responsible for all JSC aircraft operations including aircrew training.
FOD is led by engineer Norman Knight located at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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Current ISS Mission
Expedition 73
Click the link below to learn about Expedition 73 crew and cargo missions.
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I Am NASA Flight Operations
Meet the people of the Flight Operations Directorate.
Official FOD YouTube ChannelJoin the Flight Operations Team
Learn how to become a member of this unique team which promotes America's National interest through human space exploration.
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Become a FOD Intern
Are you interested in joining the next generation of NASA explorers, scientists, engineers, or technicians? A Flight Operations internship is a great place to start.
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