Franzeska H. Becker
NASA Armstrong Project Manager
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Franzeska H. Becker is a project manager for Science Projects at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, assigned to the Gulfstream IV science aircraft since August 2023. She is responsible for managing G-IV airborne science activities, including structural modifications to support next generation Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar instruments developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Experience
Previously, Becker was the project manager for NASA Armstrong’s ER-2 high-altitude science aircraft from January 2022 through August 2023. She coordinated and conducted science campaigns and managed long-term sustainment and budget of the aircraft. She was the ER-2 deputy project manager from June 2019 to December 2021 and mission manager from December 2014 to January 2016. After taking a year off and a year in the private sector, Becker returned to NASA Armstrong as an airborne science mission manager from May 2018 to June 2019. Becker would coordinate and develop the integrated aircraft schedule to conduct airborne science campaigns.
Becker first came to NASA Armstrong as a contractor in October 2007. She worked as a meteorologist through December 2014, producing forecasts and climatology; developing computer programs to model data; providing data analysis; and maintaining and using weather data collection equipment to support flight research and airborne science activities.
In 2022, Becker received a NASA Early Career Achievement Medal. She authored three technical papers: “Lidar Wind Profiler Comparison to Weather Balloon for Support of Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle,” published in 2010; “Heat Stress Equation Development and Usage for the Dryden Flight Research Center,” published in 2012; and “T-34 Air data Pacer Calibration Results, Edwards AFBSCAMP: Sonic Boom Experimental Execution and Measurement Data Acquisition,” published in 2013.
Education
Becker earned a Bachelor of Science in applied meteorology from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.