Michelle Amos | |
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![]() Michelle Amos in 2004 | |
Born | Baker, Louisiana |
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Occupation | Electrical engineer |
Michelle Amos is an electronics design engineer at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center. [1] Amos joined NASA in 1990 as an electronics design engineer.
Amos graduated from Southern University and A&M College in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. [2] In 2005, she earned a Master of Science in engineering management from the University of Central Florida. [3]
In 2006, Amos was co-chair of the NASA Advanced Range Technology Working Group. [4] Amos designs electrical systems and control equipment in at the Kennedy Space Center's Advanced Technology Development Center and worked on a support team for the International Space Station configuring and documenting its electrical configurations. [5] [6] She was the project manager lead for the shuttle transition and retirement activities. [1] She was a member of the team that developed the Mars 2020 rover at JPL, [2] and worked with the Artemis program, a crewed Moon mission, until retiring in 2020. [2]
She was the chairperson of NASA's Black Employee Strategy Team. [7] She worked on Perseverance, the Mars 2020 rover, as a system engineer. [8]
In 2002 she won an All Star Award at NASA's Women of Color Government and Defense Technology Awards Conference. [9] In 2003, she received the KSC Strategic Leadership Award. [3]
Amos was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Dunk and Dorothy Wright, one of ten children. [6] She was raised Baptist but her family converted to being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1979. [2] She and her husband, John D. Amos, have three children and live in Oviedo, Florida. [1] In 2020, Amos and her husband began a three-year term leading the Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission of the LDS Church. [10] [11]