Mark Bowman

About Mark Bowman

I wear three \"hats\" within the Flight Dynamics Division, Flight Operations Directorate at the NASA Johnson Space Center: 1) I am the Flight Operations Lead for the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) of the Lunar Gateway project, 2) I am the Soyuz Spacecraft Systems and Crew Operations Lead, In this role, I am responsible for providing to the Astronaut Office and Flight Operations Directorate operational, safety and mission assurance assessments of Soyuz spacecraft upgrades and modifications, manufacturing, test, launch preparation, launch, on-orbit operations, final descent, and crew recovery. And 3) I am an ISS CapCom (spacecraft communicator) in Mission Control, where I get to talk to the astronauts onboard the International Space Station. I have over 36 years of experience in space hardware development and integration, project management, and project engineering, both as a NASA civil servant (17+ years) and a contractor (19+ years).Specialties: International integration and cooperation, project management, project engineering,foreign language expertise (fluent in Russian and Spanish)

Experience

1. Gateway Power and Propulsion Element (Ppe) Flight Operations Lead

   NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

   May 2020 — Present · Houston, TX, US

Education

• Excelsior University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies

  1999 — 2000

• Clear Lake High School

  Diploma, AP Physics, Calculus, Chemistry, Music

  1974 — 1978

• San Jacinto College

  Mathematics

  1983 — 2000

• Excelsior University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies

• Excelsior University

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

  1999 — 2000

• National Scientific Medical Research Center of Kazakhstan

  Honored Professor (honoris causa), Aerospace Physiology and Medicine

• University of Houston-Clear Lake

  Electro-Optics

  1983 — 1993

• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  MS, Technical Managment

  2000 — 2002

• Brigham Young University

  Electrical Engineering

  1978 — 1983

Skills

• Satellite
• Configuration Management
• Testing
• Fortran
• Technology Management
• Engineering Management
• Defense
• Flight Test
• System Design
• Propulsion
• Aviation
• Dod
• Security Clearance
• System Safety
• Proposal Writing
• Project Management
• Simulations
• Information Assurance
• Project Engineering
• Fault Tree Analysis
• Engineering
• Aerospace
• Uav
• Software Engineering
• Root Cause Analysis
• Requirements Management
• Aerospace Engineering
• Government Contracting
• Cmmi
• Manufacturing
• Robotics
• Space Systems
• System Requirements
• Ms Project
• Systems Engineering
• Spacecraft
• Technical Writing
• Earned Value Management
• Human Factors
• Aerodynamics