Carol J. Hamilton

Ms. Carol Hamilton, Executive Director of the ASAP since 2015, has specialized in system safety engineering for more than twenty-five years. Her career also includes experience in systems engineering, systems verification, and system test engineering for both NASA space systems and the Department of Defense systems. During her time at Goddard Space Flight Center from 1991 to 2015, Ms. Hamilton contributed to more than twenty space flight missions, serving as a Senior System Safety Engineer for Hernandez Engineering for eight crewed Space Shuttle missions and later as the Project Safety Manager for fourteen uncrewed space missions. During her NASA career, Ms. Hamilton has been an instructor for the NASA Safety Training Center and has served on several NASA mishap investigation boards.