Dwight Mosby has been appointed to a pair of leadership roles within International Space Station payload operations at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

Mosby was selected for the Senior Executive Service position of payload operations cost account manager, as well as manager of the Payload and Mission Operations Division. The Senior Executive Service is the personnel system covering most of the top managerial positions in federal agencies.
Mosby brings 23 years of requirements management, avionics, program management, configuration management and earned value management experience in the aerospace industry. He was previously manager of the Operations Directors Office, 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, Mosby held multiple positions with Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville, including manager of space station Training and Crew Operations; program manager for space station Mission Operations and Integration; senior director of Space Mission Operations; and, most recently, vice president of Space Operations. Previously, Mosby worked for United Space Alliance in Houston, where as a multi-purpose logistics module instructor 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.
Mosby earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from Clark Atlanta University and a doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He’s also 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, a NASA Office of Small Business Program’s Large Prime Business of the Year award, and was named NASA Office of Small Business Program’s Mentor Protégé of the Year in 2016.
A native of Pittsburgh, he and his wife have two sons and reside in Huntsville.

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