JSC 2.0 trendsetters get the gift of ‘the right place at the right time’

If Johnson Space Center’s greatest asset is its people, the center is rich indeed.

JSC Director Ellen Ochoa extended an invitation to nearly 20 team members from each directorate to watch three new crew members—Kjell Lindgren, Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui—rocket to the International Space Station on July 22 from a prized vantage point in the Mission Control Center (MCC) viewing room.

This elite group has one very important trait in common: They are JSC 2.0 trendsetters, embodying the tenet that we cannot rest on our successes of the past if we want to be the workforce of the future. Through their ingenuity and innovation, the center is making a pathway for change that will only help enable ambitious space exploration goals, like humans on Mars.

“Congratulations … to the group of JSC folks shown in the photo who were selected by their organizations to view the launch from MCC because of their contributions to JSC 2.0,” Ochoa recently said in a note to employees. “Their ideas and activities are helping us to advance human spaceflight by making us more lean, agile and adaptive to change.”


Employees who received JSC 2.0 recognition opportunity:

NA - Mike Belansky

XA - Elizabeth Blome

AJ - T.Q. Bui

LA - John Clayton

GA - Griff Corpening (not pictured)

EA - Jenny Devolites

AD - Trinesha Dixon

CA - Gabriele Mathews

VA - Starr Reynolds

JA - Paula Scheffman

SA - Penny Stanch

IA - Heather Thomas

OA - Allison Westover

AH - Heather Williams

BA - David Wilson

AA - Vanessa Wyche

AL - Amy Xenofos

Also pictured are two Hubble scavenger hunt winners, Sara Zwart/SK and Holly Dlouhy/SK.