Michelle Amos
Michelle Amos is an electronics design engineer at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center. Amos joined NASA in 1990 as an electronics design engineer and stayed with Nasa for 30 years. Amos was also a systems engineer for Deep Space Logistics.
Education
Amos graduated from Southern University and A&M College in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. In 2005, she earned a Master of Science in engineering management from the University of Central Florida.Career
In 2006, Amos was co-chair of the NASA Advanced Range Technology Working Group. Amos designs electrical systems and control equipment in at the Kennedy Space Center's Advanced Technology Development Center and worked on a support team for the International Space Station configuring and documenting its electrical configurations. She was the project manager lead for the shuttle transition and retirement activities. She was a member of the team that developed the Mars 2020 rover at JPL, and worked with the Artemis program, a crewed Moon mission, until retiring in 2020.She was the chairperson of NASA's Black Employee Strategy Team. She worked on Perseverance, the Mars 2020 rover, as a system engineer.
In October 2024, Amos delivered a keynote at BYU-Idaho titled ‘Light of the World’, discussing her role as systems engineer on NASA’s Artemis Moon-logistics team.