NASA’s profile of Allison Mjoen outlines how her work at Kennedy Space Center has moved across several human-spaceflight programs and into Artemis ground operations. Mjoen is an operations manager in NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems program. The agency says she has spent 20 years at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The profile recounts an SLS launch witnessed by Mjoen and her children on April 1, 2026. NASA describes the family watching as the rocket launched, with the experience giving her children a view of work their mother had helped support. For Mjoen, the launch also prompted reflection on the ground preparations behind it.
Her current responsibilities include coordinating work that takes place before launch. NASA says she supports senior vehicle operations manager Matt Czech by developing integration plans and overseeing ground operations for Artemis vehicle processing, with emphasis on booster and Orion spacecraft operations. The profile does not identify the launch witnessed by the family or provide further mission details about that event.
Mjoen began her aerospace career as a flight crew systems engineer with United Space Alliance, supporting the Space Shuttle Program. Her team prepared shuttle cabin configurations for individual missions, covering items such as food, spacesuits, cargo and payloads.
After the shuttle program ended, she worked on the International Space Station Program as a payload integration engineer. In that position, she linked experiment investigators with organizations developing the relevant hardware. She later served in a project office for the Test and Operations Support Contract and joined NASA’s Operations Project Engineering Office. There, she was the Spacecraft Payloads Integration and Evolution Element lead for Artemis I.
During Artemis I, Mjoen supported integrated firing-room operations as a certified operations project engineer. NASA’s account describes certification as an important career milestone, followed by the responsibility of applying it during live operations. Mjoen said decisions and communications in that setting supported the integrated team’s ability to carry out procedures safely and correctly.
Mjoen told NASA that earlier in her career she felt every decision needed to be perfect. She said she came to view work as a chance to learn, including tasks that might not initially seem connected to later responsibilities. Her advice, as presented in the profile, emphasizes curiosity, effort, relationships and confidence that experience can prepare a person for future roles.
She also described collaboration as a rewarding part of the job, saying that teams’ combined work contributes to mission success. NASA’s profile connects that teamwork with the wider purpose of Artemis: creating a shared experience for a new generation as the program works toward returning astronauts to the lunar surface. Mjoen compared the potential public impact with the first Apollo Moon landing, while expressing hope that Artemis can make a similarly memorable moment and sustain lunar exploration.
The account is a NASA-produced career profile, not an independent assessment of the program’s schedule or outcomes. Its focus is Mjoen’s career path and responsibilities, along with her reflections on preparation, teamwork and the significance of Artemis.
