Longtime Stennis Space Center employee Christine Powell has achieved federal Senior Executive Service status and been selected to lead NASA’s Rocket Propulsion Test Program office located at Stennis.
In her new role, Powell will lead a team responsible for managing NASA’s chemical rocket propulsion test facilities, activities, and resources across the agency.
The office also leads in identifying and integrating agency rocket propulsion test requirements and advancing propulsion test technologies.
Prior to assuming her new position, Powell, a native of Biloxi, and resident of Carriere, served as assistant director of the Stennis Engineering and Test Directorate.
Powell has served in multiple positions since beginning her 31-year NASA career at Stennis as a student intern in 1991.
After graduating from Mississippi State University and becoming a full-time employee at Stennis in 1995, she worked as a controls engineer, instrumentation engineer, data acquisition engineer, test project console operator, systems engineer lead, project manager, and Systems Engineering Branch chief.
