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.
Mission in Progress
Artemis I I
WE ARE GOING
NASA Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA Astronaut Jeremy Hansen will 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. The 10-day flight will help confirm systems and hardware needed for early human lunar exploration missions.
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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 74
Current Mission
Click the link below to learn about Expedition 74 crew and cargo missions.
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NASA Astronaut Candidates
Meet the Platypi: NASA’s Newest Astronaut Candidate Class
Read about NASA Astronaut Group 24 and how their backgrounds and skillsets will help shape future missions to the Moon, and eventually Mars.
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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