Vanessa Wyche, NASA’s first Black female center director, returns to her role as Johnson Space Center director.
HOUSTON — Johnson Space Center is getting its director back, NASA confirmed this week.
An agency spokesperson confirmed to the Houston Business Journal on Sept. 3 that Vanessa Wyche will return to her role as director of JSC. Her return follows acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy naming Amit Kshatriya as the agency’s associate administrator.
Wyche was named acting associate administrator in February by Janice Petro, Duffy’s predecessor as head of NASA. Stephen Koerner held the JSC director role in an acting capacity during Wyche’s tenure as acting associate administrator.
Wyche’s return to JSC is effective immediately, the NASA spokesperson said.
In a Sept. 3 LinkedIn post, Wyche congratulated Kshatriya on his new role and said she looks “forward to returning home to Johnson Space Center as its center director and continuing to push the mission forward at the hub of human space exploration.”
Wyche is the first Black woman to head a NASA space center, taking the JSC director job in 2021 after Mark Geyer stepped down.
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