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Jason Hutt
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NASA Human Spaceflight for 25+ years, currently Orion Program Systems Engineering & Integration manager. Displaced Philadelphian. Go Birds! Amateur National Park photographer. Occasional science fiction writer.

Go then. There are other worlds than these.
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
We’re doing everything we can to stay on schedule. So I’m a little salty when I see things beyond our control that are going to make all that extra effort irrelevant and grind us to a halt.
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Or you do own at least 2 ice cream scoops, but it’s all the way over in another drawer.
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Reposted by Jason Hutt
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
We moved to Horsham by then and I went to Archbishop Wood
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
13 weeks and a 10 year old kid who grew up in a little apartment in Northeast Philly gets to live the dream and send astronauts in a spacecraft he helped design and assembled to another world.
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
13 weeks away (plus a launch scrub or 2).in 25 years here, I’ve never had more to do and been under the gun more than ever before. When the pressure gets too high, I take a deep breath and figure out the next step, then the next. Get something done, then move to the next.
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I’ll be on-console leading the engineering team that supports Mission Control as we send people around the moon for the first time in 53 years. I wasn’t born when we stopped going to the Moon. I’ve spent my whole life wanting to go back, wanting to go further.
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I’ve written the human rating certification package. I was selected as a MER manager and started supporting mission sims. Now, I’m leading our flight readiness reviews. We’re 13 weeks from launch.
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This year, I led through program through our acceptance review, allowing NASA to take ownership of the spacecraft from Lockheed. Then I started regular trips to KSC, supporting vehicle processing as it’s fueled up and finished final assembly.
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I shepherded the crew cabin through its final design review. Closed out dozens of design issues. Then I was asked to be in charge of human rating certification, making sure we did everything to be able to say it’s reasonably safe to put the crew in our vehicle and fly missions to the Moon.
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I moved to Orion and after 6 months thought that I’d made a huge mistake. Then I was put. In charge of crew systems integration. My charge was to make sure the astronauts had what they needed to complete the mission.
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM