Michelle Amos didn’t aspire to a career at NASA. It wasn’t that she didn’t have big dreams; it’s just that her big dream was to work for IBM. But once she arrived on the campus of the Kennedy Space Center, she fell in love with its mission and never left until she was called on a different kind of mission.
Michelle Amos didn’t aspire to a career at NASA. It wasn’t that she didn’t have big dreams; it’s just that her big dream was to work for IBM. But once she arrived on the campus of the Kennedy Space Center, she fell in love with its mission and never left until she was called on a different kind of mission.
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President John D. and Sister Michelle E. Amos. Sister Amos is a former NASA engineer who worked on the Mars 2020 rover before embarking on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She watched her project land Thursday while on Zoom with 200 missionaries.
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For almost a year, Michelle Wright Amos worked on the Mars 2020 rover as a systems engineer.
But before the Perseverance rover launched on July 30, 2020, Amos and her husband, John, received a special church assignment to supervise young men and young women serving as full-time missionaries in Louisiana.