Credits: NASA Heather Brown
NASA’s Sound Bites video series celebrates members of our workforce and shares their diverse experiences and insights. On this episode, we meet one of NASA’s Modern History Makers, Wayne A. Wong. At an early age, Wong was torn between his passion for the arts and storytelling and a love of science and math. Ultimately, he chose a path to engineering and, eventually, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland where he leads a team of scientists and engineers who are building next generation space power systems. His work focuses on thermal energy conversion technologies that power spacecraft built to explore the dark, dusty, and distant environments in our solar system—places where solar energy is not practical. Though his chosen career field is in STEM, Wong still finds time to lead a volunteer team of dragon dancers, and foster creative pursuits as an actor, filmmaker, and writer.
NASA is in a Golden Era of aeronautics and space exploration. In partnership with commercial and private businesses, NASA is currently making history with significant missions such as Artemis, X-57 Maxwell, and X-59 Quesst. The NASA’s Modern History Makers series highlights members of NASA Glenn’s workforce who make these remarkable missions possible.
