{"id":10305,"date":"2026-08-06T16:35:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/i-am-artemis-tom-percy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:35:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:35:51","slug":"i-am-artemis-tom-percy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/i-am-artemis-tom-percy\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Artemis: Tom Percy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As NASA sets its sights on long-term exploration of the Moon and Mars, the agency is increasing the cadence<\/a> of its Artemis missions. Helping bring these plans to fruition is Tom Percy, manager of systems engineering and integration for NASA\u2019s Human Landing System Program.<\/p>\n

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Tom Percy, manager of systems engineering and integration for NASA\u2019s Human Landing Systems Program, stands in front of an Apollo Program lander exhibit at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville near NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center. <\/div>\n
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Percy serves as a focal point in working with providers SpaceX and Blue Origin to accelerate and streamline systems designs, manufacturing, testing, and certification. He ensures the crewed landers<\/a> that SpaceX and Blue Origin are developing for Artemis are designed, built, tested, and will operate with other NASA exploration assets safely and effectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou might say that all human landing system integration work lands on my desk. And with the rest of my talented, hard-working systems engineering and integration team, we\u2019re working to make it all happen,\u201d Percy said.<\/p>\n

A native of North Easton, Massachusetts, Percy earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, where he first got hands-on experience working on designs that could be applied to NASA\u2019s sustainable lunar architecture.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an undergrad, I served as president of the Rochester Institute of Technology\u2019s chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. To get some real-world engineering experience, we decided to participate in the Great Moonbuggy Race,\u201d Percy said. \u201cNow called the Human Exploration Rover Challenge<\/a>, the competition is held annually at NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time, I had never heard of Marshall Space Flight Center,\u201d said Percy. \u201cBut our student team designed and built a rover and traveled to Huntsville for the race. That\u2019s when I learned about some of the projects in Marshall\u2019s diverse portfolio that the center works for NASA. And that\u2019s when I began planning to make my way to NASA Marshall for my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Percy chose to move south and earn a master\u2019s degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. His research in the advanced propulsion lab and courses in space systems design culminated in a spacecraft design course and the chance to work directly with engineers at Marshall.<\/p>\n

Since landing at Marshall in 2003, Percy has been involved in evaluating transportation architecture options for human deep space exploration, including missions to land astronauts on the Moon and Mars. He also has expertise in space transportation, including advanced propulsion technology development; trajectory analysis; and spacecraft and mission concept development. Percy earned a doctorate in aerospace systems engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.<\/p>\n

The range of experience comes together in his current role as manager of human landing systems engineering and integration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world watched the amazing success of Artemis II. NASA and our commercial providers are looking forward to flying again soon and executing increasingly complex Artemis missions,\u201d Percy said.<\/p>\n

Through the Artemis program, NASA will send astronauts on increasingly complex missions to explore more of the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, establish an enduring human presence on the lunar surface, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the Artemis program, visit:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/artemis<\/a><\/p>\n

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