Plano Native, Brandon Lloyd 1 Of 4 In NASA’s Newest, Elite Flight Director Class

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

March 1, 2021

HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM) – One of the newest leaders of the NASA Mission Control Center, which calls the shots for what happens on the International Space Station, is from Plano.

Brandon Lloyd joins an elite list (only 101 people have had the job) of current and former NASA flight directors. Following a rigorous training program that includes both technical knowledge and leadership skills, he will be ready to oversee human spaceflight missions to, from, and aboard the space station, as well as the lunar missions of NASA’s Artemis program.

“Our flight directors are at the forefront of everything that humans do in space,” said NASA Flight Operations Director Steve Koerner. “We place a huge responsibility upon them individually to take any necessary action to ensure the safety of our astronauts, the safety of the spacecraft, and to accomplish the mission.”

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