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Aerospace engineering alumna selected as 2021 NASA flight director
Chloe Mehring, a 2008 Penn State aerospace engineering alumna, is pictured here at NASA s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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Aerospace engineering alumna selected as 2021 NASA flight director
Gabrielle Stewart
March 03, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Since second grade, Chloe Mehring dreamed of space. She went to Space Camp in junior high, researched NASA careers in high school and studied aerospace engineering in college to follow her aspirations.
Now, as a newly selected flight director in NASA’s class of 2021, Mehring, a 2008 Penn State aerospace engineering alumna, will lead human spaceflight missions to the International Space Station and potentially the moon.