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<\/a><\/figure>NASA has selected Norman Knight as acting deputy director of Johnson Space<\/a> Center. Knight currently serves as Director of Johnson\u2019s Flight Operations Directorate (FOD), responsible for astronaut training and for overall planning, directing, managing, and implementing overall mission operations for NASA human spaceflight programs. This also includes management for all Johnson aircraft operations and aircrew training. Knight will serve in this dual deputy director and FOD director role for the near term.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is an honor to accept my new role as acting deputy director for Johnson,\u201d Knight said. \u201cHuman spaceflight is key to our agency\u2019s mission and our Johnson team is unified in that goal. The successes we see every day are the evidence of that. It never ceases to amaze me what our team is capable of.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Knight began his career at the Johnson Space Center as a Space Shuttle mechanical systems flight controller, working 40 missions in this capacity. He progressed through management roles with increasing responsibility, and in 2000, he was selected as a flight director and worked in that capacity for numerous International Space Station expeditions and Space Shuttle missions. In 2009, he became the deputy chief of the Flight Director Office and participated in a NASA fellowship at Harvard Business School in general management. In 2012, Knight was selected as the chief of the Flight Director Office and then in 2018 as deputy director of the Flight Operations Directorate after serving a temporary assignment as the assistant administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. In 2021, Knight was selected as the director of FOD.<\/p>\n \u201cNorm has an accomplished career within the agency,\u201d said Steven Koerner, Johnson acting director. \u201cHis leadership, expertise, and dedication to the mission will undoubtably drive our continued success.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Throughout his career, Knight has been recognized for outstanding technical achievements and leadership, receiving a Spaceflight Awareness Honoree award for STS-82. He also received several center and agency awards, including two Exceptional Achievement medals, multiple Johnson and agency group achievement awards, two Superior Accomplishment awards, an Outstanding Leadership medal, the Johnson Director\u2019s Commendation award, and the Distinguished Service medal.<\/p>\n Knight earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in aeronautical engineering from the Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in 1990.<\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n Get The Details…<\/a> NASA has selected Norman Knight as acting deputy director of Johnson Space Center. Knight currently serves as Director of Johnson\u2019s Flight Operations Directorate (FOD), responsible for astronaut training and for overall planning, directing, managing, and implementing overall mission operations for NASA human spaceflight programs. This also includes management for all Johnson aircraft operations and aircrew [\u2026] Continue reading
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