{"id":168146,"date":"2018-04-11T14:26:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T18:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-422315"},"modified":"2024-03-12T17:05:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:05:39","slug":"kennedy-biographies-jones","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/kennedy-biographies-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-bio-intro maxw-full width-full padding-y-6 padding-x-3 hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-bio-intro\">\n\t<div class=\"hds-bio-intro-container grid-row grid-container grid-container-block padding-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-4 desktop:grid-col-3\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hds-bio-thumbnail width-10 tablet:width-card desktop:width-card-lg\">\n\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ksc-melissajones-201703223.jpg?w=526\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"Melissa Jones, NASA Landing and Recovery Director, Exploration Ground Systems\" style=\"transform: scale(1.1); transform-origin: 50% 28%; object-position: 50% 28%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ksc-melissajones-201703223.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ksc-melissajones-201703223.jpg?resize=196,300 196w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ksc-melissajones-201703223.jpg?resize=261,400 261w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ksc-melissajones-201703223.jpg?resize=392,600 392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-7 desktop:grid-col-9 grid-row margin-0 padding-0\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-8 margin-bottom-2 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-1 desktop:margin-bottom-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"display-60 display-block width-full\">Melissa Jones<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p-lg padding-0 margin-0 color-carbon-60\">Division Chief, Operations and Test Management, Exploration Ground Systems<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Melissa Jones currently serves as division chief of Operations and Test Management\u00a0for the Exploration Ground Systems Program at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Jones is responsible for all staffing, resources, and facilities used for flight hardware processing, launch, and recovery for Artemis missions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Jones most recently served as the NASA Landing and Recovery director for the first Artemis mission, where she partnered with the U.S. Navy to recover the Artemis I Orion crew module from the Pacific Ocean. Prior to that, Jones served as the lead system engineering and launch site integration manager for the Ground and Mission Operations division of NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program. Her responsibilities in this position included leading the spacecraft production effort, integrated system\u2019s verification testing across elements, and hardware and operations readiness for the launch site. She also was the design requirement owner for all landing requirements levied on the NASA commercial partners, including contingency operations and medical requirements at landing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She joined NASA\u2019s human spaceflight effort in 2004 as a contractor on the Space Shuttle Program and moved to NASA in 2007 as the lead orbiter project engineer on space shuttle Endeavour. Her primary responsibility in this position was to get the Endeavour vehicle ready to fly from a requirements management and testing perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Jones is a graduate of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, earning a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering in 2003 and a master\u2019s degree in engineering management in 2016. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Jones is a 2017 Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Stellar Award Nominee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Jones is a native of Florida, where she lives with her husband Paul, her two children, Bailey and Les, and her dog, Domino. Her hobbies include kickboxing, reading and home improvement projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Biography last updated February 2023<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Jones currently serves as division chief of Operations and Test Management\u00a0for the Exploration Ground Systems Program at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 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