Beth Moses
Natalie Beth Moses is an American aerospace engineer, commercial astronaut instructor, and one of the central people behind Virgin Galactic's cabin and passenger-training work. Her career bridges traditional NASA human-spaceflight engineering and commercial suborbital operations.
- Born
- May 29, 1969
- Died
- N/A
- Birthplace
- N/A
Flights
6
Spacewalks
N/A
EVA time
N/A
In space
1 hour, 23 minutes, 55 seconds
Bio
Moses studied aeronautical and astronautical engineering at Purdue, then worked at NASA Johnson Space Center in the Project Office. She contributed to human-in-the-loop testing for International assembly and the mechanisms astronauts used during station spacewalks.
At Virgin Galactic, she became chief astronaut instructor and interiors program manager. On VF-01 in February 2019, she flew inside VSS Unity to evaluate the cabin experience and became the first woman to make a spaceflight on a commercially launched vehicle.
Moses later flew several additional SpaceShipTwo missions, including Unity 22 and early commercial Galactic flights. Her record treats each flown suborbital mission as a flight card because they are separate spaceflights, even though the cumulative time is much shorter than orbital missions.