Artemis launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson has made history before. She cemented her spot in space history as NASA’s first female launch director. artemis kprc2 clcik2houston space
cut the tie for her. NASA says it’s a tradition that signifies the first time someone’s served in a console position for a successful launch.centered around baked beans, the tie tradition is briefly explained as follows:
One of the few KSC traditions that excludes eating is the cutting of a rookie’s necktie after launch. A customary practice among aviators following their first solo flight, launch directors, NASA test directors and engineers humbly endure this borrowed ceremony. Shortly after liftoff, a Kennedy manager uses scissors to hack off the necktie just inches below the knot -- in front of the entire launch team.
Blackwell-Thompson offered to stay all night to cut the ties of anyone on her team who wanted her to do the honor for them., Blackwell-Thompson graduated from Clemson University in 1988 and began work at Kennedy Space Center as a payload flight software engineer for The Boeing Company. She joined NASA in 2004 as a NASA test director in the Launch and Landing Division.
She went on to hold various roles in the space shuttle program through the retirement of the shuttle and was ultimately named launch director in January of 2016. According to her biography on NASA’s website: Blackwell-Thompson is the holder of multiple patents related to launch vehicle interface standardization concepts, and command and control methods and systems. She has also received numerous awards.
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