Dwight Mosby has been named to the position of director of Spacecraft and Vehicle Systems Department in the Engineering Directorate at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, effective immediately. Current director Angelia Walker plans to retire at the end of 2024.
Center Director Joseph Pelfrey announced this news in early November 2024.
In Mosby’s role, he will oversee, lead, and manage an annual budget exceeding $100 million. He will also manage a highly technical and diverse group of approximately 450 civil servants and contractor engineers who are responsible for planning, performing, and directing the technical designs, analysis, test, evaluation, verification, integration, and research and development of state-of-the-art spacecraft and space launch vehicle systems including the Space Launch System and the Mars Ascent Vehicle.
Mosby previously served as deputy manager of the Human Exploration Development and Operations Office from 2022 to 2024. In this role, he assisted in managing and implementing Marshall’s work portfolio in human exploration and transportation projects, habitation systems, payload and mission operations and integration, and project development and integration for International Space Station payloads, facilities, and environmental control and life support systems.
Since 2020, Mosby has held leadership roles within International Space Station payload operations at Marshall, including the Senior Executive Service (SES) position of payload operations cost account manager and the Payload and Mission Operations Division manager.
Mosby has more than two decades of experience in requirements management, avionics, program management, configuration management, and earned value management in the aerospace industry. He was manager of the Operations Director’s Office in 2019, where he oversaw day-to-day operations of space station payloads and was the single point of authority to the station’s Flight Director’s Office in Houston for all of NASA’s payload operations.
Before joining Marshall in 2019, Mosby held multiple positions with Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville from 2002 to 2018, including manager of space station Training and Crew Operations, program manager for space station Mission Operations and Integration Contract, senior director of Space Mission Operations, and vice president of Space Operations.
From 1997 to 2001, Mosby worked for United Space Alliance in Huntsville, where he developed payload training lessons for station crew members and was responsible for developing standard operating procedures for joint station training operations conducted between Marshall and NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Mosby earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from Clark Atlanta University and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He has been awarded two NASA Group Achievement Awards, three NASA Certificates of Achievements, a Silver Snoopy, a Space Flight Awareness Team Award, a President’s Volunteer Service Award, Marshall Technical Person of the Year in fiscal year 2020, and a Center Director’s Commendation. He also led his contract to win the NASA Large Prime Business of the Year and Mentor-Protégé of the Year awards.
A native of Pittsburgh, Mosby and his wife have two sons and reside in Huntsville.