From Perimeter College to the Stars: Former Georgia State Student Works on NASA's Program That Will Land the First Woman on the Moon
From Perimeter College to the Stars: Former Georgia State Student Works on NASA's Program That Will Land the First Woman on the Moon
Kavya Manyapu is fulfilling a lifelong dream of working for NASA.
The former Georgia State University Perimeter College student — and now rocket scientist — has joined NASA’s Artemis program at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Artemis aims to take the first woman to the moon by 2024, 55 years after Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong’s history-making landing.
Manyapu’s career in aerospace has been a blast from the start, she says. For almost a decade, she worked in multiple roles with Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner program in Houston.