NASA executive inspires Woodlands Academy students Grier Wilt, deputy director of NASA s operations in Star City, Russia, gave Woodlands Academy students inspirational advice and interesting insights during the Jan. 25 program of the school s Imagine Yourself in the C-Suite series. Courtesy of Woodlands Academy
Updated 1/27/2021 4:18 PM
As a young girl growing up in a small Pennsylvania town, Grier Wilt would often gaze lovingly at the stars in the sky. On one such occasion she asked her father how she could go there. His advice was to become an astronaut.
Now, as deputy director of NASA s operations in Star City, Russia, Wilt oversees all NASA astronaut training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Prior to this, she worked as a spacewalk engineer at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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