Angela Bowes
Technical Focus Area: Strategic, Decision, Systems, and Mission Analysis
Study Topics/Expertise: Decision Science, Human Design Science, Modeling and Simulation, Mission Design & Analysis, Trajectory Design
Angela Bowes is an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center who has ensured numerous complex aerospace systems perform as intended for mission success in her various project roles throughout her career. Her background includes 20+ years of experience on multi-disciplinary projects in industry and across various NASA centers. In her work on multiple NASA flight projects, Ms. Bowes has led and served as a subject matter expert on diverse teams through all phases of the mission cycle (concept formulation through flight operations).
Awards
- NASA Honor Group Achievement Awards for MRO, MSL, Autonomous Aerobraking Development, LDSD, ASPIRE, and LIFE Core Capability Workshop Facilitation
- NASA Silver Group Achievement Awards for Commercial Crew Entry, Descent, and Landing Modeling and Simulation and LOFTID
Education/Professional Experience
Ms. Bowes currently serves in the Space Mission Analysis Branch at NASA Langley. She has previously served on detail assignments as the Business Development Manager for Langley’s Aeronautics Research Directorate and with the Langley Office of Director for the Langley Future of Work (FOW) Team. In these roles, Ms. Bowes led work to enhance business development processes and to identify stakeholder needs and implementation approaches for transformation initiatives, using systems analysis methods and human-centered design.
Ms. Bowes was also a member of the Atmospheric Flight and Entry Systems Branch for 11 years where she performed analyses and developed high fidelity flight simulations to understand and predict vehicle flight dynamics for various projects including ALHAT, LDSD, ASPIRE, Commercial Crew Program, ExoBrake, LOFTID, & OSIRIS-REx. She initially served in SMAB as an evaluator on panels for NASA’s Mission Announcement of Opportunity investigations and provided analyses supporting the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Constellations Systems Engineering Office.
Ms. Bowes started her NASA career at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she performed mission design analyses as well as trajectory and orbit design on several projects including MRO, MSL, & DAWN. Prior to her time with NASA, Ms. Bowes worked at Honeywell Aerospace where she performed control analyses, project engineer functions, and participated in a continuous improvement program with an outside supplier to understand and effectively address supplier processes that were contributing to systemic issues of quality and performance.
Ms. Bowes earned a B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University and a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Bowes is an active volunteer on the AIAA Astrodynamics Technical Committee, helping to organize AAS/AIAA conferences. She also enjoys mentoring and participating in STEM outreach activities for girls and college students.
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