{"id":180206,"date":"2023-02-15T12:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?post_type=people&p=180206"},"modified":"2024-02-05T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:15:53","slug":"joseph-pelfrey","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/joseph-pelfrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Pelfrey"},"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=\"640\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mic_3118cropped.jpeg?w=640\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mic_3118cropped.jpeg 4404w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mic_3118cropped.jpeg?resize=240,300 240w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mic_3118cropped.jpeg?resize=768,960 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mic_3118cropped.jpeg?resize=819,1024 819w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mic_3118cropped.jpeg?resize=1229,1536 1229w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mic_3118cropped.jpeg?resize=1639,2048 1639w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mic_3118cropped.jpeg?resize=320,400 320w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mic_3118cropped.jpeg?resize=480,600 480w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mic_3118cropped.jpeg?resize=720,900 720w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mic_3118cropped.jpeg?resize=960,1200 960w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mic_3118cropped.jpeg?resize=1600,2000 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" 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\">Joseph Pelfrey<\/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\">Director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center <\/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\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"heading-18\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFollow Joseph\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"social-icons social-icons-monochrome\"><li class=\"social-icon social-icon-instagram\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joseph-pelfrey-86b16b12\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Follow Joseph on LinkedIn.\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 310 310\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M72.16 99.73H9.927c-2.762 0-5 2.239-5 5v199.928c0 2.762 2.238 5 5 5H72.16c2.762 0 5-2.238 5-5V104.73c0-2.761-2.238-5-5-5zM41.066.341C18.422.341 0 18.743 0 41.362 0 63.991 18.422 82.4 41.066 82.4c22.626 0 41.033-18.41 41.033-41.038C82.1 18.743 63.692.341 41.066.341zm189.388 94.42c-24.995 0-43.472 10.745-54.679 22.954V104.73c0-2.761-2.238-5-5-5h-59.599c-2.762 0-5 2.239-5 5v199.928c0 2.762 2.238 5 5 5h62.097c2.762 0 5-2.238 5-5V205.74c0-33.333 9.054-46.319 32.29-46.319 25.306 0 27.317 20.818 27.317 48.034v97.204c0 2.762 2.238 5 5 5H305c2.762 0 5-2.238 5-5V194.995c0-49.565-9.451-100.234-79.546-100.234z\"\/><\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Joseph Pelfrey is the director of NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He leads Marshall\u2019s almost 7,000 onsite and near-site civil service and contractor employees and oversees an annual budget of approximately $5 billion. He also helps guide Marshall’s broad portfolio of human spaceflight, science, and technology development efforts, which touches nearly every mission NASA pursues. Pelfrey previously served as deputy center director since his appointment to the position in April 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout his NASA career, Pelfrey has served in multiple technical leadership positions at Marshall. He began his career as an industry partner, supporting development of space station payload hardware, and joined Marshall full-time in 2004 as an aerospace engineer in the Science and Mission Systems Office. He went on to serve in various leadership roles within NASA\u2019s International Space Station Program, overseeing the development, integration, and operations of multiple payload facilities and science experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2008, Pelfrey joined Marshall’s Engineering Directorate as the design integration lead for the Ares I Upper Stage, the rocket that would inform development of NASA\u2019s SLS (Space Launch System). In 2011, he was named engineering task manager for SLS\u2019 Spacecraft\/Payload Integration and Evolution Office and, subsequently, manager of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Project at Marshall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2012, Pelfrey was named deputy manager and then manager of the Exploration and Space Transportation Development Office in Marshall\u2019s Flight Programs and Partnerships Office. In 2016, he was appointed to the Senior Executive Service post of associate director for operations in Marshall\u2019s Engineering Directorate. The Senior Executive Service is the personnel system covering most top managerial, supervisory, and policy positions in the executive branch of the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pelfrey served as deputy manager of Marshall\u2019s Human Exploration Development and Operations Office from 2018 to 2020 and became manager of that organization from 2020 to 2022. In this role he oversaw management and implementation of Marshall’s work in the areas of human exploration and transportation projects; habitation systems, payload and mission operations and integration; and International Space Station payload, facility, environmental control and life support systems project development and integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A native of Cheraw, South Carolina, Pelfrey received a bachelor\u2019s degree in aerospace engineering from Auburn University in 2000. 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